Lou Salamon

Biography 

Since childhood, Lou Salamon has been captivated by the living world. She meticulously draws insects and plants, exploring their cellular structures and remaining attuned to the subtle murmurs of nature. Her fundamental, impulsive need to create is woven into her very being. Her perception of the world manifests through the development of textile and organic materials.

After graduating from the École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et du Textile, she felt a stronger pull toward material and art rather than design. She chose Haute Couture embroidery as her artistic medium and trained in Lunéville embroidery.

Following an experience as a freelance embroidery artist for Charvet Place Vendôme, she decided to devote herself entirely to artistic creation. The acquisition of one of her large-scale works by an art collector marked the beginning of her career. Her work soon gained recognition, leading to an exhibition at the Musée du Textile de Labastide-Rouairoux, where her contemporary embroideries resonated with the historic craftsmanship of the Clarisses de Mazamet. Since then, her works have traveled from exhibition to exhibition, engaging in dialogue with materials such as glass, concrete, and ceramics.

At the heart of her artistic research lies the experimentation with material contrasts and the creation of hybrids. Through embroidery, she explores the boundary between dream and reality, between the fusion and duality of beings and materials. This medium offers her immense creative freedom, allowing her to confront personal anxieties and traumas. Her work reflects not only her inner upheavals but also those of the contemporary world. At times, embroidery becomes a dance, a trance-like movement, a dissolution of self in the act of creation.

She evokes cracks and voids in existence, translating them into rhythms and textures through thread.

Exhibitions

• March 2025: Participation in the International Mini-Textile Competition, Musée Jean-Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, Angers

• November - December 2024: Window exhibition, Galerie de l'Atelier, Nancy

• July - August 2024: Exhibition in harmony with Yukié Inaba’s blown glass works, Artist’s Workshop, Aubusson

• July 2024: Exhibition of two large-format embroidered works, Festival du Lin et de la Fibre Artistique, Église de Saint Aubin sur Mer, Normandy

• March - October 2023: Creation and exhibition of monumental embroideries for "Des liens sacrés," Musée du Textile de Labastide-Rouairoux

• July - September 2022: Exhibition in resonance with ancient and contemporary tapestries, Galerie Jabert, Aubusson

• 2020: Group exhibition, Quincaillerie Numérique, Guéret

Photography : Biya Ebogo