Pierre-Yves Delannoy: Soft Structures of Memory
Where stories are stitched back together
Pierre-Yves Delannoy works across felt, embroidery, crochet and performance. His practice begins with the body and with gestures that repeat. Rolling wool, piercing fabric, sewing fragments onto cloth. The works often start from lived experience, small memories, personal images, traces that carry social weight. Through slow material processes these fragments settle into surfaces.
The textiles behave like soft architectures. Felted scenes stretch across large hanging panels while delicate crochet elements hover in space. Delannoy stitches dating app images, receipts and domestic objects into these fields. The material stays visibly handled, slightly uneven, sometimes rough. Nothing appears polished, everything carries the pressure of the hand.
Pierre-Yves Delannoy: The Shell Cannot Land on the Playhouse, 2025, felt installation, 120 × 150 × 130 cm. Courtesy the artist. Photo by Milena Wojhan.
Inside these works a quiet tension forms. Intimate memories collide with public systems that shape how bodies are seen or excluded. Queer experience, vulnerability and resilience move through the images without becoming illustration. Instead they remain embedded in the material itself.
Delannoy’s method is simple but persistent. He gathers, repeats, stitches and returns. Over time the surfaces accumulate stories that refuse to disappear.
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Visual Overview
Pierre-Yves Delannoy: I felt your fleece in the tidal valley, 2023, installation, variable size. Courtesy the artist. Photos by Mara Pollak.
Pierre-Yves Delannoy: Left: Willkommen bei den AGA (performance), 2024; Right: aux pédés, 2023, textile work, 170–250 cm. Courtesy the artist. Photos by Hanne Kaunicnik and Magdalena Jooss.
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