This exhibition proposes photographs making use of the relationship between lace and body, clothes or fashion but also presenting lace as a material for an experimentation of photographic processes. Here is a nice way of building bridges between fine arts department and lace department in the 90’s, whereas the Cité International de la Dentelle et de la Mode is still in the early stages.

Today, as both collections are about to take off in two different places, a bond still lies between them: the issue of lace’s symbolic representations.


Photography :
© Nancy Wilson-Pajic - Collection du Musée des beaux-arts et de la dentelle, Calais

Photographers :
Valerie Belin, Pierre Boucher, Roberto Castro Polo, Catalina, William Henry Fox Talbot, Bernadette Genée, Germaine Krull, Sam Levin, Man Ray, Annette Messager, Pierre et Gilles, Pierre Molinier, Agnés Propeck, Joan Soulimant, Vincent Soyer, Nadine Szewczyck, Nancy Wilson-Pajic, Greg Gorman.


Conception of exhibition::
Martine Fosse, Barbara Forest, Shazia Boucher, avec la complicité d'Annette Haudiquet.

Sponsorship :
Ville de Calais, Musée de l'Hospice Comtesse, Musées de France

 

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Coming soon in Calais : La Cité internationale de la dentelle et de la mode

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A new museum and a place to live dedicated to mechanic lace is on the go in Calais and should open in 2009. The museum trail is spread along a former factory built in the 1870’s and made of three U-shaped buildings.

That authentic site is a major asset of the project. You can get onto several themes:

- Handlace, a craft industry with relevant economic stakes in Europe and that industries will copy with their machines,

- Lace’s industrial adventure in Calais reveals a complex technical history and a wonderful spreading in the new City,

- The production unit where the looms will run,

- Trendy laces in the 20th century point out the change in the silhouettes and the lifestyles,

- News and futures of lace…

It is a place for memory but also for modernity. As an assert, the architects proposed an adjoining building symbolizing lace through a glass wall with printings of Jacquard card. What’s more the scientific and cultural programme of the City will allow spaces for specific public.
Creators and researchers, amateurs and professionals, mechanics, textile or fashion enthusiasts will be put together and will be able to practise in several places:

- a resource centre including a specialized library and a material library,
- technical workshop for lacemaker, design, customization,
- an exhibition area, an auditorium and a fashion show area.
This new site also offers a restaurant, a shop and outside areas for discovery and enjoyment.

More than the expected cultural programming: exhibitions, workshops, training courses or study days, events around lace will be organized with partners.

Martine Fosse
Curator in chief in charge

Photography :
Façade © Moatti et Rivière




Exhibition from 15th May to 29th June "Surfaces sensibles "

Preview: 22th May – 7pm
Exhibited at Musée de l'Hospice Comtesse - 32, rue de la Monnaie - Lille
Tel : 03 28 36 84 00

Open Monday from 2pm to 6pm, Wed to Sun from 10am to 12.30am and from 2pm to 6pm.