After graduating in Fashion Design and a Diploma in Textiles with a specialization in metallic embroidery, Marie Berthouloux created the Ekceli studio.
Ekceli means « Focused gaze » in Esperanto. This language is for Marie, as well as textiles, a universal communication tool. Textile techniques express and convey the history of our humanity. They carry our myths and are the witness of each culture.
Through her research of eclectic and contrasting materials, Marie moves the cannetille, silk threads or iron fragments on leather, cork, artisanal weavings. Sometimes flat, sometimes in volume, the embroidery is thought as an ornamental and multiform pattern. It moves and spots a space with highlights.
Marie Berthouloux defines her practice as textile goldsmithing. The metallic embroidery – from its experimentation to its expansion in volume – is associated with the ennoblement of the material such as pyrography on leather, marbling, dyeing, gilding, digital printing,…