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Featuring RU artist-in-residence Florence Vacher in the RU voices interview series 🎤
Florence Vacher is a Brooklyn-based self-taught artist specialized in large-scale figurative textile work. She began her current series following a transformative trip to Mexico in 2011. This expedition ignited within her a profound desire to breathe new life into objects from bygone eras by changing their scale and representing them in fabric and thread. Using carefully selected fabrics, which she layers and arranges like paint on a canvas, she is able to explore new dimensions of texture, color, and form. Vacher, who comes from France, developed an expertise in the arts from Africa, working alongside collectors in Paris and later in New York, where she has lived since 1998. She has spent decades admiring and studying these objects and observing the ways in which artists, dealers, curators, and collectors have been approaching them since they were first “discovered” in the early 20th century. Florence’s work was recently part of the exhibition “The Edges of Layers”, at Residency Unlimited March 24-26, 2026.
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