Vernissage: Friday 19th September, 17:00 -21:00, with the artist.
Salon Vert is pleased to invite you to the vernissage of artist Michele Landel, taking place on Friday, September 19th, from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM, on the occasion of Geneva Art Week.
Michele Landel disrupts traditional painting by dismantling its boundaries—merging photography, embroidery, and reclaimed textiles into a new visual language. With thread, wax, and image, she reconstructs and transforms domestic interiors into fragile, fractured memories.
Machine embroidery traces thin, irregular lines—part scar, part map—across the surface. Flowers collapse. Shadows multiply. Objects shift and vibrate. What once felt familiar becomes unstable. In a culture saturated with manipulated images and curated illusions, she leans into rupture. Walter Benjamin warned of the aura lost through endless reproduction; Landel stitches it back in, drawing on the intimacy of embroidery and mending—through labor, slowness, and touch.
These are not pristine images. They are disrupted, broken, stitched-over inner landscapes. Landel reclaims the handmade as a challenge to the polished, the fast, and the fake.