Emmanuelle Jenny
Textile design
Her work revolves around the notion of the loop.
The curved line recalls the one found in a lock of hair, in the shape of an arabesque, in the figure eight symbolizing infinity and renewal, in the undulations of a thread, in the roundness of a ball of yarn, or in the interlacing of words and speech.
She uses détournement as a way of reusing materials, signs, existing objects, or visuals for new purposes and/or entirely detached from their original meaning. In search of forms that generate an aesthetic language within ordinary things, she creates stylized and modern patterns with contemporary color combinations. Her travels infuse the motifs she designs with a vision from elsewhere.
The transversality of practices is highly present in her work, as is the way she approaches each new project.
In 2018, she founded the label Eugénie Design, marking a new creative turning point in her activity. She launched it in collaboration with Manon Hervé, freshly graduated from the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design in Orléans.
The identity of Eugénie Design is characterized by designer patterns featured on clothing and accessories for babies.
Career
She obtained her DNSEP (Master’s degree in Art and Design) in the Textile and Surface Design department in 2009 from HEAR.
Her desire to explore new horizons led her to Morocco in 2008, where she traveled across the country—from workshops to cities, landscapes to inhabitants. She created a series of patterns linking Moroccan culture with Western culture, and later developed a collection of scarves.
At the same time, she multiplied professional experiences with joyful enthusiasm. She worked successively as a lecturer and workshop facilitator at the Musée de l’Impression sur Étoffes; coordinator of the third, fourth, and fifth years in textile design at Le Quai school (2009–2010); mediator at the contemporary art center La Kunsthalle; and visual arts instructor at the Ateliers Pédagogiques d’Arts Plastiques de la Fonderie (Education Department).
In 2014, she spent several months in New York, and in 2016 she traveled along the West Coast of the United States.
2014: Artist residency in New York.
