Portrait by Clara Chichin

Sabatina Leccia

Sabatina Leccia is a french artist born in 1984.
Her works balances between Art and Craft.

In 2012, she graduated from MA Material Futures at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art and Design in London. There she began to develop experimental embroidery. Before setting up her workshop in Montreuil, she worked as an embroiderer for Haute couture and collaborates with many luxury brands (Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga…). In 2015, she began to exhibit these first embroidered paintings at the Amélie de Borchgrave gallery in Brussels and from there she carried out numerous artistic projects: Artistic residency in Estonia, collaboration with the Fabrique Nomade in 2017, then in 2019 she was called by the Maison Patou to embroider the costume of the academician Barbara Cassin.

Sabatina has now set up her workshop at Usine Chapal in Montreuil. She works regularly with interior design agencies (Soho Myriad in the United States, Winch Design in the United Kingdom, Gilles & Boissiers in France).She makes tailor-made drawn or embroidered works for hotels or individuals. Alongside her personal projects, Sabatina regularly collaborates with Alix Waline represented by the Armel Soyer gallery.Together they recently exhibited their work at Genius Loci, curated by Marion Vignal, in Gio Ponti's house in Garches.

In 2022 she started a new collaboration with the French photographer Clara Chichin. Their project " le bruissement entre les murs" has been rewarded by Transverse Award in November 2022 and their project will be published by sun/sun edition in November 2024.

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Text by the french art critic and curator Madeleine Filippi ( translation by Claire Vicomte) about my work if you click here

Awards

Winner of Transverse award with Clara Chichin

2022

2011

Winner of EDF Sustainable Design Challenge

Recidencies

2023 In residency at La Capsule93 with Clara Chichin

2016

2015

Preselected for the Villa Kujoyama,
Kyoto, Japan

Art Residency at TYPA Center, Tartu, Estonia

Exhibitions

Coming soon: La Chambre Claire, Université Rennes 2

Le Bruissement entre les murs with Clara Chichin, l'Ahah, Biennale de l'Image Tangible, Paris.

2023 Souffle d'été by Expérience Collective, Galerie Virginie Lessage et Anne Sirot, Paris.

2021 Grains Libres by Madeleine Filippi, Paris

Genius Loci by Marion Vignal, Garches

Le temps est comme suspendu with Murs

Blancs chez Archik, Paris

Déconfilement with The Fibery Gallery,

Paris

Nucleus, Gilles & Boissier Showroom, Paris

2020 Nucleus, Salon DDessin with The Fibery Gallery, Paris

2019

Les Paradis Perdus, Galerie Bettina, Paris

Force & Délicatesse, Galerie N'Oblige, Paris

Microcosme, The Fibery Gallery, Paris

Accrochage II, The Fibery Gallery, Paris

2018

Galerie Première Œuvre, Paris

L’intuition des Couleurs,
Espace d’art contemporain Orenga de Gaffory, Patrimonio, Corse

2017

D'un espace à l'autre, le 87, Art Exprim, Paris

Journée Européenne des Métiers d’Art,
INMA, Paris

Pénélope, Grands Voisins, Paris

2016

Les Paradis Perdus, Trevor, Paris

Waiting for the Sun, Lambrata, Milano

2015

Painting Embroidery, Gallery Chevalier, Paris

I Follow Rivers, atelier 14, Paris

Poetic Plastic, LMK, Tartu

Painting Embroidery,
Gallery Amelie de Borchgrave, Brussels

2014

Illuminated Corolla, Gallery Joseph, Paris

2013

Poetic Plastic, Mood, Brussels

Waste is Beautiful,

Prima u Mare, Erbalonga, Corsica

Alive-En Vie, fondation EDF, Paris

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Art of Protest,
People’s History Museum, Manchester

2012

Lille 3000, Lille

EDF Olympic showroom, London

Ma Textile Futures Exhibition, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins School, London

2008

Nuage, école des Beaux Arts, Paris