Works
Sabine Cibert ● Contemporary Textile Art

Boréale 295 – final

Orages and Boréale 295 detail

Boréale 295 – exhibition

Boréale 295 – detail
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Title: Boréale 295
Borealis 295
Dawn series
Format: 86 x 85 cm – 2ft 10 in x 2ft 10 in
Weight: 450 g – 16 oz
Date: 2023 – 2024
No. 295.2024.18
Technique:Textile squares hand-assembled on the wrong side for a 3-dimensional effect, adding blurry depth.
Three layers quilted on canvas through a bamboo core.
1.369 squares 1,18 inch squares
Description: Featuring a more restricted colour range than the previous pieces in the Dawn series, Borealis 295 experiments and innovates with a whole new square format.
The textiles come in a range of hues, featuring blocks of burgundy and touches of mauve, interspersed with lines of pinks, and a startling yet tenuous green halo flares out from below. Layered sheer textiles afford delicate touches of nuance.

Atmen – final

Atmen – detail

Atmen – Aube 287
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Title: Atmen
Dawn Series
Format: 135 x 65 cm -“4 ft 5,15 in x 2 ft 1,6 in
Weight: 530 g – 4 ft 5,15 in x 2 ft 1,6 in
Date: 2018 – 2024
No. 287.2024.10 – 285.2024.8 – 292.2024.15
Technique: Textile squares hand-assembled on the wrong side for a 3-dimensional effect, adding blurry depth. Three layers quilted on canvas through a silk core.
1,377 3 cm – 1,18 in squares
Description: Atmen means “to breathe” in German and is derived from the Ancient Greek for “steam” ἀτμός which has also given us “atmosphere”. Comprising three works from the Dawn Series, Atmen links the macrocosm of the earth’s atmosphere to the microcosm of its inhabitants’ breath. The colour draws the eye downwards in a circular swoop, at a steadfast, unbroken pace like breath, like Qi.

Absence – final

Absence – exhibition

Absence – detail

Absence – plans
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Titel : Absence
Absence
Seasons series
Format: 183 x 277 cm – 6 ft x 9 ft 1 in
Weight : 3820 g – 8 lb 7 oz
Date: 2023 – 2024
No. 280.2024.3
Technique: Textile squares, hand-quilted and assembled to produce a 3-dimensional effect on a canvas base with a wool core,
4,675 4-cm squares
Description:The series depicts the seasonal development of semi-aquatic, pond plants on a ridge at over 2,000 m in altitude. Come the end of a blistering summer, both the water and plants are conspicuously, glaringly absent.
Inspired as much by West African bogolan as the ephemeral beauty of Andy Goldsworthy’s works, Absence lends a voice to the crack and crevices of the parched land.
Echoing the aridity of the topic, the work draws on a frugal array of some 20 fabrics. An arrangement of raw and robust canvases alongside linen formerly used in prisons.
Around the clumps of earth baked dry, irregular yet achingly similar crevices crackled by the heat, as if trimmed with an incandescent metal or mica.

Orages – exhibition

Orage 314

Orage 320

Orage 317

Orage 308

Orage 301

Orage 311
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Title: Orages 301,308,311,314,320
Storms 301,308,311, 314,320
Storm series
Format: 23 x 23 x 4 cm – 9 in x 9 in x 1,6 in
Weight: 400 g – 0,9 lb
Date: 2024 – 2025
No. 301.2024.23 – 308.2025.2 – 311.2025.5 – 314.2025.8 – 320.2025.14
Technique: Folded textile squares, cardboard; visible or concealed folding.
121 pieces of 3 cm
Description:
The change in technique implemented during the Snow Series is repeated for the Storm Series in a dark colour palette. The relief achieved by folding varies according to the weave, fibre and whether or not cardboard was used. The unceasing variations in the stormy skies and the angry atmosphere are synthesised with the volume and fibre in these smaller formats. In mini display cases for easy installation, each Storm condenses layer upon layer of perceptions.
Series:
Dawn
Seasons
Thaw
Magma
Running Water
Semagram
Moments
Five squares
Time and Space
Circles
Alhambra

Other works 2009 – 2013
Collaborative projects