Héléna Guy Lhomme (France, Sèvres)
New exhibitor at Révélations 2025
After defining herself for several years in relation to ceramic sculpture, Héléna Guy Lhomme discovered the richness and potential offered by this atypical material for many: wool. A living and ecological material, wool is the fruit of the work of a human and animal production sector. This soft medium, which evokes femininity and the home, ultra plastic and ultra pictorial that she works with tens of thousands of needle strokes, offers her a renewed demiurgic power to create decorative and politically committed pieces of art.
From her childhood fascination with Dutch still life and the chiaroscuro of the Golden Age, she first draws trompe-l’oeil decorations that are disturbingly realistic. Then, the pieces take a resolutely contemporary turn. They question female bodies and food, sensuality and vanity, madness of our time.
Simone Pheulpin – Maison Parisienne (France)
Born in 1941, Simone Pheulpin is a French textile sculptor who lives and works in the Vosges. This material artist creates magnificent pieces using a technique based on meticulous, repetitive folding of strips of unbleached, undecayed, rough cotton. Pins, hidden at the heart of each work, hold it all together. The result is a universe that is sometimes mineral, sometimes vegetal, a reflection of the natural world. Under her hands, cotton becomes a powerful driving force, arousing intense and original emotions. Her work has been exhibited in public collections around the world, from Japan to the UK, via Spain and Hungary.
Simone Pheulpin is represented by the Maison Parisienne gallery, founded in 2008 by Florence Guillier Bernard, which promotes material artists with exceptional French know-how.
Lily Alcaraz & Léa Berlier (France, Paris)
Exhibitor at Révélations 2019 and 2022
Lily Alcaraz and Léa Berlier are textile designers specialized in weaving. In their Parisian workshop, they imagine new fabrics and unique hand-made pieces woven on their own looms. They propose to architects, decorators and luxury brands the design and manufacturing of special orders involving materials and colors dedicated to unique projects. Their weavings create abstract landscapes for hanging, or come to life as textured surfaces on floors, seats, walls or fashion accessories. At the request of textile brands and publishers, they also create designs for printing or weaving.
In 2021, they received the Grand Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris in the Métiers d’Arts category. They created weavings for Moinard Bétaille – Cartier, RDAI – Hermès, Tristan Auer – Car Tailoring project, Rodolphe Parente, Stéphanie Coutas, Anne-Sophie Pailleret or Great Design Gallery. At Révélations, they will be unveiling an original leather-weave wall piece and a wood-weave sideboard.
Seeker Li – REVELATIONS CHINA (Chine, Beijing)
New exhibitor at Révélations 2025
For decades, Seeker Li has witnessed the remarkable transformation of Chinese society from an agricultural giant to an industrial powerhouse, along with the painful transition of people’s emotions and concepts from an agrarian society. To allow handicrafts to reflect these changes of the times, he advocated innovation in embroidery. He creatively and systematically shifted from realistic to abstract embroidery.
The representative series "Four Seasons" took two to four years to create each piece. These abstract embroidery works are filled with the colors of the agrarian society, and the dynamic, ever-changing lines reveal distinct calligraphy genes. The incredibly exquisite details of Su embroidery showcase the luxurious silk luster and a relief-like texture, reminiscent of the leisurely and warm agrarian era.
Marion Plaçais (France, Nantes)
New exhibitor at Révélations 2025
Marion Plaçais revisits the art of weaving, bringing a contemporary dimension to an age-old tradition. Its aim is twofold: to preserve a heritage of craftsmanship while ensuring the sustainability and traceability of materials. This vision propels weaving into a form of artistic expression, between heritage and innovation.
After a Master in craft and industrial textile techniques from the Académie Royale des Beaux-arts in Brussels, it is in France that Marion Plaçais decided to set up her workshop. In the town of Nantes, she experiments and use different methods of weaving and creates both textiles and collections of high quality products for the luxury sector : décoration, space design, haute couture.
She draws her inspiration from the history of weaving and the ancestral textile techniques all around the world. For centuries and beyond borders, this knowledge has been simultaneously developed and disseminated on the five continents. From ikat, shibori, katazome, to wool felting, Marion Plaçais combines the old know-how that she re-appropriate with her personal weaving techniques.
Atelier Sumbiosis (France, Sèvres)
Exhibitor at Révélations 2022
Founded by Tony Jouanneau, the Atelier Sumbiosis is a textile finishing laboratory between science and textile know-how. Inspired by the symbiosis in the living, we hybridize natural colors with art crafts and we transpose haute couture techniques to decorative arts for the creation of exceptional pieces.
Textiles are revealed in all their diversity and through the bold approaches of the exhibitors, of which this selection reveals a glimpse. Many other creators explore and magnify this material at Révélations.
