Liselore Frowijn

The ARTIST

Born in 1991, Amsterdam-based visual artist Liselore Frowijn’s practice revolves around installations and sculptures made from textiles covering objects, driven by the notion of disguise as an act of revolt.
As a transdisciplinary artist, Frowijn layers projects across multiple disciplines. In her practice, she employs collage techniques to dimension and document her work in analogue and digital formats, weaving elements from her extensive research to propose imaginary future narratives inspired by (eco)feminist thinkers.

Frowijn graduated cum laude from ArtEZ University of the Arts with a bachelor’s in fashion design in 2013. After winning the Dutch Couture Award and the Prix Chloé at the Festival de la Mode et Photography in Hyères she founded Studio Frowijn in 2014. In 2023 she achieved an Art History master’s, with a thesis on ecofeminism at the University of Amsterdam.

www.studiofrowijn.com

The Residency

In October 2024, Dutch artist Liselore Frowijn spent one month in residence at Lottozero, Prato, to develop a project rooted in the city’s textile history and the overlooked figure of Margherita Datini, wife of renowned 14th-century merchant Francesco Datini.

Through visits to Palazzo Datini and its archive, where the couple’s extensive correspondence is preserved, Frowijn delved into Margherita’s life—a woman burdened with domestic labor and societal expectations, often unacknowledged in the legacy of her husband’s mercantile empire.

Drawing on Silvia Federici’s feminist reflections on the historical exploitation and invisibility of women’s labor in Western capitalist society, this research became the foundation for the entire body of work developed during the residency. While Margherita’s story echoes throughout, her presence is most strongly embodied in a series of digital jacquard tapestries, where archival fragments and contemporary images interweave to bring her narrative back into the fabric of history.

ARCHIVAL JACQUARD FABRICS

For the creation of her sculptural and installation-based works, Frowijn drew on Lottozero’s unique archive of jacquard furnishing fabrics, a collection of samples spanning fifty years of Italian upholstery history (mid-to-late 20th century).

These materials became central to her textile sculptures and installations, which critically engage with the depiction of women within the domestic sphere. By repurposing fabrics traditionally tied to interiors—symbols of domesticity and status—Frowijn reflects on how Western capitalist society continues to undervalue the labor of childcare and housework, roles historically relegated to the private sphere and rarely acknowledged as economic contributions.

body politics

Super Sofas – The Fruits of the Loom is a series of ten textile sculptures that merge furniture, body, and feminist critique.

Made from archival jacquard sample fabrics and industrial felt, these hybrid forms morph mannequin-inspired body parts—hips, breasts, buttocks—into cushions, armrests, and backrests, playfully yet unsettlingly echoing how women’s bodies have been commodified as functional objects.

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