Liliana Gassiot was born in Romania in 1959 and now lives and works in Montreux, where she draws with her sewing machine on her own photographs, embroidering an intimate dialogue between nature and personal history.

Her work interweaves multiple techniques, exploring themes of birth, belonging, environment, and nature through a deliberately simple approach that embraces everyday materials. Working primarily with thread, she evokes images of nature and womanhood—a kind of paradise lost.

Through her thread work, Gassiot reconnects with a tradition from her native Romania. The repetitive, sensual gestures passed from mother to daughter create an emotional bond to her cultural heritage, which she reinterprets freely. By enhancing photographs of bodies and undergrowth with stitching, she enters the secret life of these forms, inhabiting them by accentuating particular details.

She also creates artist's books using her sewing machine, producing limited editions that combine text with pressed flower pigments. On fine paper, floral and feminine imagery emerges through graphite rubbings. Embroidering white sheets with black thread, she crafts large-scale designs with fairytale forms and romantic symbolic imagery.

Gassiot exhibits primarily in Switzerland and France.