Aurélie Hoegy
Critically acclaimed for her myriad and artful designs of spun fibres and objects, twisted and turned into shapes that unify furniture and sculpture. Aurélie Hoegy, Parisian artist, designer and craftswoman works in creating three dimensional and functional tapestry like compositions.
Based in her Parisian atelier. Hoegy marches often to travel, studying from Balinese masters in rattan or collaborating on projects in Puerto Escondido.
After completing a masters in Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven in 2013, her graduation project the McGuffin Lamp was exhibited in Shenzhen, at Mudac and the Van Abbemuseum. Subtitled Border between Normality and Abnormality. It was an early exploration of the designer using yarn to “invade space and transform our daily reality into a poetic absurdity”.
Her next project, The Dancers, was presented as a performance at Palais de Tokyo in Paris. A series of distinctive black chairs evoking the concept of body and hair as an organic architecture; winning both the 2015 Rado Star Prize and the 2016 Pure Talent Contest, it was later acquired by the French National Design Collection (Centre national des arts plastiques) in 2021. Hoegy took this same emotion and movement to new heights in Wild Fibres; sculptural seating crafted from rattan-like undulating fibres meticulously composed into form. The series’ chaise longue is now a permanent feature of the Centre Pompidou collection.
Hoegy’s work continues to stir excitement, blurring the physical and psychological boundaries in everyday life. Her functional designs span limited edition objects, furniture and lighting. And encompass installation, scenography and film. Among her ongoing projects is the investigation of natural dyes and indigenous fibres in Mexico, including bejuco liana, palm leaves, coconut yarn and pineapple silks.