Born in 1971 in Rocourt (BE)
A multidisciplinary artist, Christine Mawet graduated from La Cambre art school with a diploma in textile design and another in social communication from IHECS. Since 2008, she has been running workshops in the design and making of textiles and is regularly asked to produce work for public spaces, in Belgium and abroad. Expressing her art through different mediums, such as drawing, photography, textile design and ceramics, Christine Mawet seeks to elude the passage time. Her work explores the notions of disappearance and traces, memory and forgetting. In 2010, within the framework of the Festival des 5 saisons in Chaudfontaine, the artist drew inspiration from the fan-shaped leaves of the gingko biloba, an extremely resistant very ancient tree, and a local plastic surgery clinic, to embroider suture-like stitches on dead leaves to create astonishing ‘flowers’, symbols of vanity. Since 2012, she has been working on the Back to the tools project. The motifs, taken from a gardening tool catalogue that belonged to her grandfather’s company, are presented in different forms (photography, ceramics, wallpaper, etc.). No longer serving their original purpose, they bring us back to her favourite theme: the vanity of beings and things.
