name logo of Margaux Minodier

I'm interested in objects that no one pays attention to, things without value, or made only to be useful. I feel empathy for these forgotten items, and I make them mine by studying them, analyzing them, and recreating them.

Everyday, ordinary things might seem boring, but for me, they are full of stories and imagination. I try to bring them into the spotlight by playing with shapes and perspective.
I use oil painting and weaving—two slow and traditional techniques—to create a contrast with the simple objects I work with. A toolbox becomes a jewelry box.

A small stone becomes a precious gem. Recently, I started using 3D in my work. It helps me bring still objects to life and build stories around them, while imagining new, more immersive ways to show them.

Tool Box A 1/2

Tool Box C

Tool Box C

TOOL BOXES

Toolboxes are designed around the very tools they're meant to protect. A perfect mold shaped by their contents. When empty, these boxes leave behind a ghostly imprint of the tools, inviting other interpretations, they could suggest anything. Yet some details raise questions: are they entirely functional ?

Bloc n°1

Oil painting, 2019

Bloc n°2/3

Oil painting, 2019

BLOCS

The Blocs were sculpted to be interesting, in terms of light and shadow, to be painted. The sculpting was intuitive, led by the material’s constraints. Painted as monoliths or menhirs, you can’t really look away.

L'absence n°1

Oil painting, 2018

L'absence n°2

Oil painting, 2018

ABSENCES

They used to protect a screen or a toaster, and now they’re on the street. Their whiteness makes them stand out in the trash—even more so now that they’re represented in the purest way. Losing their scale, they become architecture or mechanical parts.

La Chute

Oil painting, 35x40 cm, 2018

La Chute

3D motion design, 2024

LA CHUTE

This impossible structure had always been animated — even painted as a still life. But years later, I was finally able to bring this painting to life for real, giving its title, La Chute, The Fall, its full meaning.

Soleil Vert

Oil painting, 50x70cm, 2018

Soleil Bleu

Oil painting, 50x75cm, 2016

Soleil Noir

Oil painting, 50x75cm, 2017

LA CHUTE

This impossible structure had always been animated — even painted as a still life. But years later, I was finally able to bring this painting to life for real, giving its title, La Chute, The Fall, its full meaning.

TALKS

september 2022

"Curation" Celles qui font le design with Maak&Transmettre

september 2021

Prato - Hirokawa Textile Connection part 2 : presentation of Circular Wool Rugs with Lottozero/textile laboratories

april 2020

Shaping through Material, with Lottozero/textile laboratories

EXHIBITIONS

dec 2021 - fev 2022

MODERN CRAFT, The art of hacking traditional crafts at MAD Brussels, BEL

may - june 2021

inprocess n°2 at Forest Abbey, in Brussels, BEL

october 2020

inprocess n°1 at Forest Abbey, in Brussels, BEL

april 2019

Soleil Sombre, personnal exhibition of my paintings at Gallery l'Oeil Vintage in Lyon, FR

PRESS

december 2019

Contributed article on fall/winter 2020/2021 trends for Textile View magazine with Envisions

juillet 2016

Quote from the article "Le foulard, un objet à géométrie variable" in Revue Initiales N°8 - Nathalie Du Pasquier

Let's meet online or in Brussels ! 🤝

Font used for the logo : Barlowflow by Victor Dubien and Andrea Bonetto
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