Liliana Gassiot, born in 1959, is originally from Romania, which she left at the age of 21. Today she lives and works in Montreux where she draws with her sewing machine on her own photographs, embroidering a living link between nature and her intimate history.

She intertwines several techniques in her work, ranging from subjects related to birth, belonging, the environment and nature while manifesting a form of simplicity in her approach, using materials that surround her. Mainly in the thread, she represents nature and woman, a kind of paradise lost.

Without having a pretentious approach to working with thread, Liliana Gassiot rediscovers through this medium a tradition of her country of origin. The repetition and sensuality of these gestures transmitted to her from mother to daughter are a real bond of emotional belonging that refers to her culture, but which she freely exploits. By enhancing her photographs of bodies or underbrush with stitching, she enters into the secret of these forms, which she inhabits by accentuating certain details.

She also works with a sewing machine on pages, creating several editions of artist's books, while mixing texts and the application of shades of flowers. On fine paper, a whole floral or feminine iconography appears by rubbing the pages with graphite. By embroidering white sheets with black thread, she creates large fairytale-shaped designs with romantic symbolic imagery.

Liliana Gassiot exhibits mostly in Switzerland and France.