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  "description": "Artist in Focus: Pierre-Yves Delannoy builds textile environments where the body, memory and marginal histories surface through repetitive gestures.",
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  "textContent": "# Where stories are stitched back together\n\nPierre-Yves Delannoy works across felt, embroidery, crochet and performance. His practice begins with the body and with gestures that repeat. Rolling wool, piercing fabric, sewing fragments onto cloth. The works often start from lived experience, small memories, personal images, traces that carry social weight. Through slow material processes these fragments settle into surfaces.\n\nThe textiles behave like soft architectures. Felted scenes stretch across large hanging panels while delicate crochet elements hover in space. Delannoy stitches dating app images, receipts and domestic objects into these fields. The material stays visibly handled, slightly uneven, sometimes rough. Nothing appears polished, everything carries the pressure of the hand.\n\n****Pierre-Yves Delannoy:**** __Fières pouilleux__ , 2024, felt textile work, 180 × 250 cm. Courtesy the artist. Photo by Marlene Mauer.\n\n****Pierre-Yves Delannoy:**** __The Shell Cannot Land on the Playhouse__ , 2025, felt installation, 120 × 150 × 130 cm. Courtesy the artist. Photo by Milena Wojhan.\n\n****Pierre-Yves Delannoy:**** __The Shell Cannot Land on the Playhouse__ , 2025, felt installation, 120 × 150 × 130 cm. Courtesy the artist. Photo by Milena Wojhan.\n\nInside these works a quiet tension forms. Intimate memories collide with public systems that shape how bodies are seen or excluded. Queer experience, vulnerability and resilience move through the images without becoming illustration. Instead they remain embedded in the material itself.\n\nDelannoy’s method is simple but persistent. He gathers, repeats, stitches and returns. Over time the surfaces accumulate stories that refuse to disappear.\n\nFollow Pierre-Yves Delannoy on Instagram\n\n* * *\n\n## Visual Overview\n\n****Pierre-Yves Delannoy**** :  __Pendant que les champs brûlent__ , 2025. Felt textile installation, variable dimensions. Installation view. Photo: Omram Bhagchandani. Courtesy the artist.****Pierre-Yves Delannoy:**** __Pendant que les champs brûlent__ , 2025, textile installation, variable size. Courtesy the artist. Photo by Marlene Mauer.****Pierre-Yves Delannoy:**** __I felt your fleece in the tidal valley__ , 2023, installation, variable size. Courtesy the artist. Photo by Mara Pollak.\n\n****Pierre-Yves Delannoy:**** __I felt your fleece in the tidal valley__ , 2023, installation, variable size. Courtesy the artist. Photos by Mara Pollak.\n\n****Pierre-Yves Delannoy:**** __I felt your fleece in the tidal valley__ , 2023, installation detail, variable size. Courtesy the artist. Photo by Mara Pollak.Pierre-Yves Delannoy,  __Embroideries on Cashier’s Ticket__ , 2024, embroidery on receipts, variable size. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Thomas Splett.\n\n****Pierre-Yves Delannoy:**** Left:  __Willkommen bei den AGA__ (performance), 2024; Right:  __aux pédés__ , 2023, textile work, 170–250 cm. Courtesy the artist. Photos by Hanne Kaunicnik and Magdalena Jooss.\n\n**About Catapult**\n\nThis is an Artist in Focus feature published by Catapult — an independent editorial platform for contemporary art, based in Vienna. We publish exhibition reviews, artist features, interviews, and critical context, with a focus on emerging and mid-career practices from Europe and beyond.\ncatapult.art\n\nWant to be featured? Submit your work →\n\n* * *\n\n##\nMore to read\n\nArtist Interview - Kirsten Hutsch in conversation with DiFranco ****Ruben Einsmann Featured Artist**** Can Painting Carry Time Without Choosing a Side? Artist Spotlight Ruben Einsmann\n\n* * *",
  "title": "Pierre-Yves Delannoy: Soft Structures of Memory",
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