Sauvage & Beau is the textile art studio of Franco-Italian artist Johanna Fusco, based in Provence, France.
After several years working as a researcher in geography and ecology, focusing on landscapes, biodiversity and living systems, Johanna Fusco turned to textile art as a more embodied way of exploring our relationship to the living world. Her practice is rooted in a persistent perception: the world is not made of separate entities, but of continuous relations between bodies, places, materials and time.
Through her ongoing body of work Cartographies de l’Invisible, she creates handwoven wall works, textile installations and soft sculptures using natural fibres, hand-spun yarns, plant-based dyes and locally gathered materials. Each work is conceived as a tactile cartography: not a representation of landscape, but a material field where invisible forces of connection, tension and continuity can take form.
Her process brings together spinning, weaving, natural dyeing, felting and frame-making. These slow, ancestral gestures become a way of listening to matter and allowing the work to emerge through the dialogue between fibre, colour, structure and space.
At the intersection of contemporary textile art, sculpture and installation, Johanna Fusco’s works invite the viewer to shift from a perception of separation toward a more embodied sense of belonging to the living world.
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