Victoire De Changy

Subvenir aux miracles

Providing for Miracles

May 4, 2022
Novel
96 pages
140 × 180 mm
10 €
9782366246728
978-2-3662-4672-8

“Récits d’objets” collection

																Victoire De Changy, Subvenir aux miracles
																Victoire De Changy, Subvenir aux miracles

We expect a garment to offer miracles. The suit, the outfit, the clothes, the linen, the finery, the belongings, the furniture ... What link do we share with our clothes, an inescapable envelope of our daily lives, which accompanies us from birth to death and conditions a part of our relationship to the world? Whether we dress up to protect ourselves from the outside world, play a social role or simply dress up to show off, the clothes we wear act as a sounding board for our existence.

Starting with a unique wedding dress, and confronting practices and points of view, Victoire de Changy offers a sensitive and delicate reflection on the relationship we have with our wardrobes and their evolution according to the moments of our lives. She also weaves a parallel between the elaboration of a text and a textile, both requiring care, attention and a particular connection to what surrounds us.

The author

Victoire de Changy was born in 1988 in Brussels, where she still lives and works in poetry. She has published two novels: Une dose de douleur nécessaire (Autrement, 2017), finalist for the Rossel Prize, and L’Île longue (Autrement, 2018), finalist for the European Literature Prize, as well as a collection of poetry, La paume plus grande que toi (L’Arbre de Diane, 2020). For Cambourakis, she has published two children’s books illustrated by Marine Schneider: L’Ours Kintsugi, finalist for the Sorcières prize, and Le Bison Non-Non.

Noteworthy

A new book co-published with the Musée des Confluences by the author of L’Ours Kintsugi and Le Bison Non-Non as well as two novels published by Autrement.

Inspired by a wedding dress made of fiber optics, this text questions fashion, and its evolution, but above all the intimate relationship that each person has with his or her clothes, vectors of memories and transmission.

A sensitive reflection on clothing as an envelope for women and men throughout their lives and the close link between textual creation and textile weaving.

May 4, 2022
Novel
96 pages
140 × 180 mm
10 €
9782366246728
978-2-3662-4672-8

“Récits d’objets” collection