Simone Prouvé is a French weaver. Born in a family of artists, she is the daughter of Jean Prouvé and granddaughter of Victor Prouvé. Always attracted to weaving, she trained in weaving techniques in Paris, Sweden, and Finland in the 1950s. Working at first with traditional materials, she discovered fire-resistant yarns in the 1990s, thermostable fibers made of stainless steel and other metals or aramid. She successively tried out the properties of Clevyl, Kermel, Dyneema, Kanekalon, flexible or rigid stainless steel, glass fiber, or even optical fiber. A photographer since the 1950s, she draws her inspiration from landscapes or details of factories and disused places. Woven on traditional looms, the panels, superimposed in transparency, transform the landscape in filigree. Between design, architecture, and abstraction, Simone Prouvé’s work has joined the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Location: Paris
