ghizlane sahli, textile artist

Ghizlane Sahli is a Maroccan textile artist. She creates with her team three-dimensional embroidery sculptures and installations made from bottle caps covered with silk thread.

Recycling and re-use strongly underlies her production, as she often uses plastic and garbage material (for example bottles). In her work the relation with the waste is more spiritual than environmental.

For the artist garbage is universal as every society produces waste. This waste is the reject from the society. When Ghislane uses it, she has that feeling that each object had a soul and a previous life. She transmutes the waste using the silk with the idea that each alveoles bring it’s own energy, and the accumulation of all the different energies becomes the artwork with its own emotion and own energy. The different steps collecting, washing, cutting, embroidering and making the artworks are all very meditative. The same gesture is repeated many, many times with no intellectuality. It becomes like a trance.