Embroidery on geotextile

15 panels 330 cm x 100 cm. 

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Linière is a French word that refers both to a plot of land sown with flax and to a female flax worker. This installation is made up of 15 panels, each measuring 330 cm x 100 cm, composed of black geotextile fabric onto which oversized flax plant roots are embroidered. Flax roots can reach depths of up to 1.5 meters. They are rarely seen because, being very fine, they remain in the soil when the plant is harvested. The panels are arranged in the space to allow viewers to walk among the roots, creating the impression of a flax field viewed from below. In this way, the installation represents the roots of flax both in a botanical sense and as a cultural root — a memory of place.

Created in 2024, it was presented at the Festival du lin et de la fibre artistique in the church of Sotteville-sur-Mer, France (2024), at the Agora Gallery of Cégep du Vieux Montréal, Canada (2024), and at the Romanesque Biennale organized by Lieux Communs and Centre d'Etudes Patrimoniales in the 11th-century Romanesque church of Saint-Martin-La-Vallée, Burgundy, France (2025). This project received financial support from the Longueuil Arts Council.