30 Sep 2025 08 Mar 2026

A Traveling Thread

Told by Sheila Hicks and Monique Lévi-Strauss

An extraordinary meeting of Andean skill and contemporary creation is the central theme of this exhibition, emerging from sixty years of discussions, travel and friendship between two women with remarkable careers.

One, Sheila Hicks, an American artist renowned for her work on colour and material, has established yarn as an open and bold visual language. The other, Monique Lévi-Strauss, an art historian, has dedicated her life to the study of textile practices in the non-Western world.

Their friendship has led to a rich dialogue between old collections and current works. The exhibition frames some twenty pieces preserved at the museum in response to around thirty creations by Sheila Hicks. Inspired by ancient Andean weaving, her work offers a reinterpretation of the gestures that transform textile material: knotting, weaving, braiding, coiling, tying. Through this correlation, a history of the textile develops which spans eras, cultures and continents.

At the entrance to the Collections area, a monumental installation by Sheila Hicks will welcome visitors and provide an immediate impression of this dialogue between heritage and creation.

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Curator

  • Isaline Saunier, Head of Technical Studies of the Textile Collections at the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac

In dialogue with Sheila Hicks and Monique Lévi- Strauss.

With the valuable cooperation of the Atelier Sheila Hicks for the loan of her works.
An exhibition organised with the support of the Martine Aublet Foundation, under the aegis of the Fondation de France.

  • Museum ticket entrance
    Full price:  14,00 €
    Reduce rate:  11,00 €

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  • Place:  Atelier Martine Aublet
  • TimeSlots:
    From Tuesday 30 September 2025 to Sunday 08 March 2026
  • Accessibility:
    • Handicap visuel,
    • LSF,
    • Handicap auditif (sans T),
    • Handicap auditif bim (T),
    • Handicap mental,
    • Handicap moteur
  • Public: All publics
  • Categorie : Exhibitions

Around the event

Guided tours, workshops, concerts, etc.
all activities organized as part of the event

Around the event

With the support of

  • Fondation Martine Aublet

Under the auspices of

  • Fondation de France