Geneviève Attinger, an agricultural engineer, is a self-taught artist. She experimented with graphic expression and sculpture in evening classes in Beaux-Arts School. Then she became interested in the possibilities of fabric and threads as art media. Her quilts are shown worldwide and can be found in private and corporate art collections in England, France, Sweden and USA. She is a member of Fiberart Synergy (France) and SAQA (USA) Her work is figurative but functions as a non verbal language; she uses parts of faces or bodies to half-open doors, to give direction, to create sensation, but nevertheless to identify clearly their meanings.

DISTRUST
$500

Cotton, satin, metallic threads, home-dyed jersey
Free-motion machine embroidery over appliquéd pieces, knotting


My work is a mixing between expression and form, by the means of fabric’s manipulation and free motion machine drawing. Here I want to relate the third stage of a rupture: after distress and sadness comes “distrust”; so the story comes untied.