Sabatina Leccia
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代表作品
Fragments of My Memories, 2026
Seeking the Sun, 2025
Seeking the Sun is a poetic and artistic quest — a return to the origins, to the first light. It is a sensory exploration through photography, textile, drawing, and video, aimed at rediscovering that initial sense of wonder, like that of a child seeing the world for the first time. My first trip to Corsica, when I was just a month old, likely marked the moment when the first colors of the world appeared before my still-new eyes.
Corsica, both real and imagined, is for me an inner refuge, a space of freedom and surrender. I spent over ten years there, through constant journeys back and forth, building a sensitive and fragmented memory. This place offered me my first experiences of beauty, my first moments of contemplation — a living material I sought to translate into images.
With this project, I aim to reconnect with a contemplative gaze — non-productive, open to reverie. My images are visual caresses, splashes of light, intimate landscapes shaped by the sea, the sun, winding roads, and ever-changing skies. They speak of an inner territory, both tangible and elusive.
Some works are embroidered, perforated, or printed on textiles; others are ephemeral, like organza prints or altered Polaroids. They evoke memory, erosion, and fragility, while maintaining a full presence in the world. It is an attempt to keep alive that state of wonder.
Part of this project was produced during my Excellence in Artisanal Crafts residency, in partnership with the Nicéphore Niépce Museum in Chalon-sur-Saône and the Émiland Gauthey high school.
Traversing the Night, 2022
Traversing the Night is a constellation of hybrid and disconcerting images, a wandering through the poetic meanderings of the night. The landscapes are hybrid, misty, and unreal. The figures glimpsed in some of the photographs are blurred, their contours indistinct, as if they could not be grasped. They are intangible, like fleeting, ghostly apparitions. Buried beneath mist or clouds, the images evoke near-chimerical visions that our minds can generate at night—a moment when the rational landmarks of daytime fall away, allowing for another way of perceiving things.
Drawings
Besides my embroidery work, I draw by using the same intuive process. As stitches I do organic shapes by accumulating ink dots. In some of them,I pierce the paper to create subtle, almost invisible, designs.
The Whisper Between the Walls - with Clara Chichin
Clara Chichin and Sabatina Leccia form an artistic duo in which the interweaving of two practices—photography and drawing—gives shape to a garden of hybrid images, accessed through the experience of a lived territory: the walls of Montreuil’s peach orchards.
The Whisper Between the Walls is a dialogue between photography, contemporary drawing, and embroidery, where materiality and symbolic representation alternate. With the "Murs à pêches of Montreuil" as both backdrop and driving force, Clara Chichin and Sabatina Leccia take fragments from reality, carving out secret passages within this fascinating place, a witness to the passage of time.
Immersed in this urban garden, and through their wanderings, the richness and diversity of forms, textures, and opacities have nourished their creation. They build their work over the seasons, with particular attention to light—its variations and effects—as well as from elements collected on site. Like the garden unfolding between the stone walls, their collaboration becomes a space of encounter and experimentation, a zone of rustling.
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人物生平
人物生平
France , 1984 -
« The images and imaginary territories I present are, in a way, crossbreedings. I can spend hours putting several images together, and then be surprised by the beauty of the landscapes that emerge from these unexpected encounters. I love the energy that comes from combining different media, such as photography and embroidery, or the light that can pass through some of my pierced images, creating a different reading of the image. I've also always enjoyed working with others and creating 4-handed pieces, as encounters with others have always taken me into new and promising territory. For me, weaving and blending are intrinsic notions of life, love and artistic work, and it's from this encounter with the other, the material or the territory that vital, creative energy is born. »
(Artist's statement, in an interview with Les Nouvelles du Campus de Rennes 2, March 4, 2024)
Sabatina Leccia is a contemporary artist who has been using different mediums since 2015 to unfold her poetic, dreamlike universe. Her work evokes interior landscapes that she constructs in the slowness of gesture. Coming from the world of embroidery, she takes hold of her embroidery needle to pierce the paper of her drawings or photos to sublimate details and create fragile, sensitive images. In her photographs, which are an extension of her drawings, Sabatina reworks color and material like a drawing, seizing on reality, transforming it and sending us off into another world.
Her work has led her to develop various projects on the borderline between art and craft with a number of structures and associations. (La Fabrique Nomade, l'Académie Française, association Art Exprim, la Source founded by Gérard Garouste...).
Sabatina Leccia continues her plastic research through institutional residencies. In 2022, she collaborated with photographer Clara Chichin and won the Bourse Transverse 2022 (with the support of ADAGP and the freelens association). They were also selected to exhibit at the Biennale de l'Image Tangible 2023, and developed their project Le Bruissement entre les murs during a residency at Capsule 93. In 2024, Sabatina Leccia was invited by the Cultural Service of Rennes II to present her “Traverser la nuit” series. The same year, she was selected for the Excellence des métiers d'arts residency, in partnership with the Nicéphore Niepce museum in Châlons sur Saône.
Sabatina Leccia's work has also been featured in institutional exhibitions, notably during the 2025 cultural season at the Centre d'art et images de Campredon, and the 2025-2026 season at FRAC Corsica.
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相关展览
办展和参展
2026 | Inhabiting Silence | Galerie XII Paris, 14 rue des Jardins Saint Paul.
2026 | Art Paris Art Fair | Grand Palais, Paris, booth B18
2026 | Parce que cette vie-là demande toujours plus de lumière. | Espace Diamant | Ajaccio
2026 | Seeking the Sun | Art Center Una Volta, Bastia
2025 | Chercher le Soleil - Approche Art Fair, 9th edition | Le Molière, 40 rue de Richelieu — Paris
2025 | Traverser le soleil | FRAC Corsica
2025 | Collective show, REVE! | Campredon Art & Images, l'Isle-sur-la Sorgue, France
2024 | Le bruissement entre les murs, avec Clara Chichin | Galerie XII Paris
2024 | Polyptyque | 9 rue Mazenod + Les Voûtes, boulevard Jacques Saadé, 13002 Marseille
2023 | Moderne Art Fair 2023 | Paris, avenue des Champs-Elysées. Stand 229
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