"At the core of her global textile medium exploration, which she dubbed “Système T”, Emma assembles rhythmic canvases of startling immediacy, that infuse the everyday with their poetic paradoxes. She deploys a personal arsenal of techniques and materials to create her dynamic playgrounds, exploring the patterns of humanity and cultural interconnection: the “undercommons”.
This exchange she’s playing out, this dialogue of ancient weaving techniques and industrial detritus, breathes new life into unique textile furniture and site-specific installations, effortlessly merging interior and exterior. Emma is stripping structures down, refining the strata of the habitat, rebuilding the world—probing the potential of resistance and reorganisation, in a crisis of materiality."
Text by Jerôme Hoppe
Pièges à soleil Gilbard.e.s , Be
KONVOOI festival 2023, Bruges, Be
Specters of the future, Doel festival, Be
HOME MADE - Créer, Produire, Habiter, CID Grand-Hornu, Be
Next Door, Triphasé, Be
The Waiting Room, Het Paviljoen, Be
Voyage Voyage, Arcade design à la campagne, Fr
Michael’s agency, Studio City Gate, Be
The gift to be simple, New York Textile Month, US
Um Cento de Cestos, Museu Arte Popular, Lisbonne
Détours, Abbaye de Stavelot, Be
Materia, CID Grand Hornu, Be
Les usages du monde, World design capital, Gare St Sauveur, Lille, Fr
Torronnées, Marronnées ERG Gallery, Be
23rd Floor, WTCI, Northern Quarter Be
Maison & Objet 2024, Rising Talent Award, Paris
Lake Como Design Festival, 2023
MK&G Messe 2023 Young Talent, Hambourg
Heimtextil fair 2023, Franckfort
Contemporary design market 2022, Tour & taxi, Be
Collectible Design Fair 2022, " Systems" La Bocca Della Verità gallery
«How & Wow Bask it!», Dutch Design Week, Pays-Bas
Lake Como Design festival 2019, Teatro sociale, Italie
Collectible Design Fair 2019, espace Vanderborght, Belgique
Talents ! finalist Dorothy Waxman International prize Mohawk showroom, New-York
Thread, Foundation Josef & Anni Albers, Sénégal
Saisons Zéro, Monastère des Clarisses, France
Summer school, Portuguese basket weaving technology, Lisbonne
Rising Talent Maison & Objet 2024
Grant design research 2022 Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles
Finalist young design artist, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Prototyping grant 2020, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Tremplin 2018, prix du Ministre de l’Education Supérieure
Tremplin 2018, prix du TL Mag, Be
Finalist Dorothy Waxman international textile design by Lidewij Edelkoort, US
Lookbook award, MAD Brussels fashion & design platform
Out of Catalogue, Zaventem Ateliers book
Domus magazine April 2022 issue
The site magazine, issue 3 «Economies of joy»
The design Story, «Textile in space »
The design story, «reimagining design and process with emma cogné»
Through Objects, interview about « Clareira »
Interior design, 10 Highlights From the Lake Como Design Fair
Dezeen, 10 young designers to watch from Collectible 2019
TL mag, Constructing Textiles: Emma Cogné
New York Textile Month, Magalog, vol.3, Talents
édition Système T limitée à 50 exemplaires numérotés avec le soutien du MAD Brussels & Design platform
Master design textile with distinction ENSAV La Cambre, Be
Bachelor design textile with mention ENSBA Lyon, Fr
Diplôme des métiers d'art Lycée la Source Nogent sur Marne, Fr
emma.cogne@gmail.com
Zaventem Ateliers
Instagram @cogneemma
Unless otherwise noted, the photographs presented are taken by Emma Cogné.
Web development and design by Studio Purple Paw (Léa Beaubois et Julie Patard).
Jet Light & Black by the Brownfox foundry
Dither it! tool by Alex Harris.
Special thanks to Giovanna Massoni, Maxime Vernedal, Jérôme Hoppe & Sydney Diack