Embroidered handmade paper
Through a series of verbs sewn with a red thread on ten sheets of hand-made paper, Fil Rouge represents a reflection on the themes of union and interconnection understood as affinity and relationship that binds all beings to each other and to their environment.
Fil Rouge is in fact a metaphor that indicates a common thread. It is the guiding idea, the common denominator that ensures the coherence of a whole. It is also the Red Thread of Destiny, Unmei no akai ito (運 命 の 赤 い 糸), the thread which, according to an ancient and popular Chinese story set during the period of the Tang dynasty and then spread to neighboring Japan, indissolubly ties from birth, the little finger of a person’s left hand to that of his or her soul mate.
In such a dissociated historical moment, full of social tensions in which differences are highlighted and boundaries defined, Fil Rouge focuses on the importance of being in contact with our own nature and with the nature that surrounds us. The hand-sewn verbs on paper describe characteristics common to both humans and animals.
Here, the symbolism of the thread was born from the mind of French metaphysician René-Jean-Marie-Joseph Guénon who said: the thread “connects all the states of existence, to each other and to their Principle”.