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FRANCE / Paris: SHEILA HICKS. LIGNES DE VIE
by Modem
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until Monday April 30 2018

Centre Pompidou
T : +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33
place Georges Pompidou
75004 Paris
France



Since the late 1950s, Sheila Hicks has been producing work exceptionally difficult to categorise. Knotting, wrapping, folding, twisting and stacking wool, linen and cotton: these are only some of the techniques and materials that have seen her undermine conventional artistic categories and their hierarchical relationships. A pupil of Josef Albers at Yale, Sheila Hicks is the heir to both a Modernist spirit that holds the distinctions between fine art, decoration and design to be unimportant and a textile practice that has its roots in pre-Columbian America.

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