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Yiqing Yin. Air and dreams

Start Date
14 June 2025
End Date
04 January 2026
Venue
Musee mode et dentelle, Museum of Lace and Fashion
Location
Calais, France
Curator
Sylvie Marot
General curators
Anne-Claire Laronde, Shazia Boucher

Yiqing Yin is a multi-disciplinary artist. At the crossroads of the arts, her sculptural and evanescent works weave a dialogue between the fragility of the human being and the creative force of nature. A great couturier, artistic director, costume designer and muse, Yiqing Yin embodies multiple roles.

Curated by Sylvie Marot, this exhibition devoted to Yiqing Yin highlights the hybridity of her artistic disciplines, between dream and exploration of the senses.

The exhibition invites us to get to the heart of the creative process, to grasp the idea even before the dress. Chance, the unexpected and the indeterminate are the keys to the sensory journey where the work reveals itself… The artist draws her inspiration from minerals, plants and animals, creating a poetics of the living that weaves its way through the exhibition. Each creation is revealed as a dreamlike landscape, where dreams and the awakening of the senses intertwine in an aesthetic of metamorphosis.

Haute couture dresses, images (photographs, films, drawings), sound textures (murmurs, rustling air) and olfactory trails punctuate this immersive journey, inviting visitors to explore their own imaginations.

Scientific curator: Sylvie Marot, independent curator

General curators: Anne-Claire Laronde, head curator of heritage, director of the museums of the city of Calais, and Shazia Boucher, curator of heritage, deputy director of the museums of the city of Calais.

Artistic director:Yiqing Yin

Exhibition catalogue

A bilingual French-English catalogue accompanies the exhibition, €30
Graphic design Adrienne Bornstein
Co-publishing Cité de la dentelle et de mode (Calais) and Liénart Éditions (Paris)

Visual: Orchidée dress, haute couture collection, autumn-winter 2012, Spring of Nüwa © Laurence Laborie, 2024.

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