
“Vibrations textiles“ solo show
Entracte Gallery
Paris, France
Ville d'Avray, France
Mathieu Josset is a self-taught visual artist specializing in the use of fabrics. His works, straddling the line between abstraction and figuration, emphasize the symbolism of folding and knotting as elements of connection between emotions, stories, and identities. His work draws on the cultural richness of textile materials while reinterpreting them in a contemporary artistic language.
Mathieu has a strong artistic connection with Afro-Caribbean cultures. He participated in the Dakar Biennale 2022 - Collective Exhibition at the Marché International des Arts de Dakar. He was also the guest of honor at the inauguration of the International Center for Contemporary Art and Cultures in Dakar in 2021.
The artist aims to catalyze his vision of African heritage through the lens of music, fashion, and dance, his favorite themes. He strives to create colorful, expressive, and highly textured works, particularly using bazin, a very popular fabric in West Africa, used for making ceremonial garments to celebrate significant occasions. For the artist, textiles alone encompass many meanings: traditional ceremonies, weddings, dances, and music.
Through his work, Mathieu seeks to express his friendship with ancestral Africa, making it resonate in the contemporaneity of a transforming Africa that spreads across the world, an Africa rich in its legends and customs, and flourishing with its innovative youth.
Party girl
2024
Black Hibiscus
2024
Addiction
2023
Energy
2021
Mami Wata
2022
Ebonee
2020
Who am I?
2019
Nija Invasion
2019
Mathieu Josset creates series of unique works primarily made from strips of cut, knotted, and assembled bazin fabric, forming vibrant portraits and abstract compositions that celebrate collective energy and the beauty of human connections.
He explores the dialogue between material, movement, and identity through a singular approach to weaving and knotting.
The act of folding engages volume, material, and textures. Through this relationship between the artist's intention and execution, sensations emerge—both from the one who hunts for fabric, feels, transforms, and composes with it, and from those who observe, step back, move closer, put things in perspective, and surrender to the repetitive patterns, reimagining the sensation of the pieces affixed to the canvas.
Every detail of the work, every knot, every fold is an entity in itself. Through this, the artist questions the concept of art through the craft of fabric and its patterns.
His art seems to invite viewers to explore not only the visual beauty but also the depth of emotions and stories that his works convey.
Mathieu Josset's works are gestures and sensations, frames and perspectives, memory and possibility.
“The work of Mathieu Josset in the warmth of its colors, is a metaphor that highlights the fundamental values of the diversity of cultural expressions to illuminate the collective memory.”
Entracte Gallery
Paris, France
Ville d'Avray, France
French Riviera
St Jean Cap Ferrat, France
St Jean Cap Ferrat, France
Le Méridien Beach Plaza
Monaco
Monaco
Azalai Hotel
Dakar, Senegal
Dakar, Senegal
Entracte Gallery
Paris, France
Ville d'Avray, France
Caravane Arkane Africa Project
Rabat, Morocco
Rabat, Morocco
International Art Market of Dakar
Dakar, Senegal
Dakar, Senegal
Guest of honor
Dakar, Senegal
Dakar, Senegal
Espace Miramar
Cannes, France
Cannes, France
Rainier III Auditorium, Monaco
Monaco
Monaco