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\n\tRaymonde Arcier, who brought attention to women\u2019s work by way of an art practice based in fabric and textiles of different kinds, died in May at the age of 86. Her death was acknowledged by sources including curators and the magazine Textile\/Art<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tArcier was born in 1939 in Bellac, France, and made her way as an office worker and self-taught artist who \u201cfrom 1970 on, produced her most striking works, crocheting wool and cotton, and knitting metal\u2014with each piece demanding up to a year\u2019s work,\u201d according to Centre Pompidou\u2019s AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions. \u201cThrough her appropriation of this female cultural apprenticeship, she wittily conjured up her social confinement, trying\u2014to use her own words\u2014to \u2018make everyone aware of the huge labour of women.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAmong her notable artworks are Faire ses provisions<\/em>\u00a0(1971), large shopping bags made with threads from garter stitching, and Au nom du p\u00e8re<\/em>\u00a0(1975\u20131976), a giant sculpture of a naked woman whose breasts are being groped that resides in the Pompidou\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n \n\tStavroula Coulianidis, an independent curator who started working with Archer in 2022, wrote on Instagram: \u201cKnown for her feminist activism since the early 1970s\u2014particularly her involvement in the Women\u2019s Liberation Movement and in the creation of the newspaper Le Torchon br\u00fble\u2014Raymonde, a completely self-taught artist, developed a body of sculptural work connected to the condition of women within patriarchal society, a reality she sought to expose and critique.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tCoulianidis continued: \u201cShopping, cleaning, sewing, and dressmaking became the basis for works in which everyday objects were enlarged to monumental proportions, amplifying their omnipresence and burden.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/raymonde-arcier-textile-artist-dead-1234788138\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260510110758-0fb42fbb-ec3d-4983-80e1-f543f1bced91.jpeg?w=1024″] Raymonde Arcier, who brought attention to women\u2019s work by way of an art practice based in fabric and textiles of different kinds, died in May at the age of 86. Her death was acknowledged by sources including curators and the magazine Textile\/Art. Arcier was born in 1939 in Bellac, France, and made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1969174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1969174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1969174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1969174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1969174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}