ARTISTS' RESIDENCIES #2 | Émilie Pitoiset - Maroquinerie de Pierre-Bénite

Émilie Pitoiset at the Maroquinerie de Pierre-Bénite, mentored by Susanna Fritscher - Artists' Residencies 2011. Under the teachings of Susanna Fritscher, Émilie Pitoiset worked at the Maroquinerie de Pierre-Bénite in 2011. As artist-in-residence, Emilie Pitoiset worked at a variety of posts, discovering a broad range of artisan skills from pattern cutting to assembly and finishing. From a shortlist of four projects devised at the end of her immersion period, she chose to explore the boundaries of leather-work, devising new solutions in collaboration with the technical bureau at Pierre-Bénite. Pitoiset's work is inspired by the world of dance, exploring concepts of balance, falling, and breaking-points: in this context, she chose to design a stage curtain of pleated black leather, romantically entitled Giselle. http://en.fondationdentreprisehermes.org/Know-how-and-creativity/Artists-residencies/Emilie-Pitoiset-at-the-Maroquinerie-de-Pierre-Benite