Cécile Davidovici: Embroidered videotape moments

Using textiles reminds contemporary embroidery artist Cécile Davidovici of childhood comforts. After her mother’s death, Cécile Davidovici found that having something tactile to work on brought on a state of mindfulness and helped her through the grieving process.

Cécile had a creative childhood and studied drama, film and theatre, going on to write and direct movies exploring the link between innocence and illusion. She discovered embroidery after losing her mother and began to stitch images of her fading childhood memories. Still working to her themes of innocence and illusion, she wanted to capture and consider the hazy moments from her past, that she had glimpsed in old family home movie videotapes.

Her recent solo exhibition