For Luxembourg Art Week, Marie Hazard has imagined the Soil Café, a place for gathering and reflection conceived as a work in its own right. With woven pieces in hemp, linen and paper, the textile artist invites us to rethink our relationship with materials.
Working as a scenographer, she creates a setting for the Soil Café, which will bring together collectors, curators and gallerists throughout the fair.
A textile artist, Hazard pushes the boundaries of weaving and interrogates her medium by moving it into other fields. A graduate in Textile Design from Central Saint Martins in London, she has developed a distinctive visual language that blurs the lines between weaving, photography, painting, sculpture and architecture.
For the two suspended works, Marie Hazard weaves hemp harvested from the land of 91.530 Le Marais, blending it with linen and paper. These are textile landscapes on a human scale: one has a more Japanese sensibility, with a graphic design, while the other feels light and subtle, its lurex threads lending the work a quiet shimmer.
In her small hand-woven pieces, Marie Hazard orchestrates an exchange of status between materials: hemp and linen sit alongside recycled inner tubes, silver thread, nylon, jute and paper. Each work finds its balance between space, light, image and meaning. Working on a hand loom with materials that resist any simple hierarchy, she subverts textile from within, not to destroy the gesture, but to free it from the docility it has inherited.
Biography
Marie Hazard (b. 1994, France) is a Paris-based weaver and artist whose work bridges traditional craftsmanship with industrial textile techniques. Since earning her BA in Textile Design from Central Saint Martins (London, 2017), Hazard has been experimenting with weaving, blending handcrafts like plain weave with digital printing to create a unique visual language.
Her practice integrates media such as photography, painting, and literature, allowing her to reinterpret both ancient and modern techniques Hazard’s art draws inspiration from a diverse array of influences, including modernist textile pioneer Anni Albers and the Arte Povera movement with works of Alighiero Boetti.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including solo and group shows at Dallas Contemporary Museum, Texas (2025); Fondation Alina Szapocznikow, Warsaw; Mobilier National & Institut Français d’Amérique Latine, Mexico City (2024); Villa Belleville, Paris (2023); Galeria Mascota, Mexico City (2022); and Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (2019). She won the Clothworkers’ Material Fund Prize in 2017.In 2022, Hazard co-founded the Potyra project with Sophie de Mello Franco, aimed at building a youth art center in Serra Grande, Bahia, Brazil, to nurture young artists. That same year, Zolo Press published her debut monograph. Hazard is the recipient of the prestigious THREAD residency at the Albers Foundation in Senegal for 2024.
The Soil Café by Marie Hazard is presented by 91.530 Le Marais and Soilonic.
91.530 LE MARAIS
91.530 Le Marais is a cultural, agricultural and technological centre in Val-Saint-Germain, in the Essonne region outside Paris. A regenerative farm, art centre and transdisciplinary research space, it brings land, creation and innovation into dialogue.
Since 2020, its 16th-century Barn has hosted contemporary art exhibitions open to the public. The Inn, renovated in hemp concrete, has become an artist residency, and the Silo a ceramics studio. On the land of La Meunière, formerly given over to intensive cereal farming, 91.530 grows hemp in a regenerative system combined with hay and horse breeding.
This hemp lies at the heart of a research into materials: transformed into textile, oil or concrete, it also feeds the work of invited artists such as Marie Hazard.
SOILONIC
Soilonic is a protocol for tokenizing living soil, built on the Solana blockchain. It turns healthy soil into a real-world asset (RWA) that can be held, exchanged and valued.
The protocol is built around SOILO, a token backed by physical reserves of regenerated soil: each SOILO entitles its holder to 1 kg of soil today, or 35 kg in ten years, to be collected from a Soilonic reserve. Half of all primary sales directly fund regenerative farmers, selected each year.
By connecting blockchain, land and agriculture, Soilonic makes soil health a traceable, transferable value.