PRESS - 2024-2026
THYMEL
Painting · Sculpture · Conceptual Couture · Film · Performance
"I build worlds where beauty is an act, love a material, and childhood a force."
Chapter 01
THE ARTIST
Biography & Practice

THYMEL · LYON · NEW YORK
BIOGRAPHY
Thymel is an interdisciplinary artist born in Lyon, France. Her practice spans painting, sculpture, conceptual couture, film, and performance. Rooted in material exploration and image-making, these elements are not separate disciplines, but parts of a constantly evolving language, each medium informing, blurring, and intertwining with the others to create interconnected visual universes.
She grew up at a crossroads of cultures, a formation that became a school of seeing in itself. Her practice emerged from lived experience, material instinct, and the patient labour of her hands. She moves fluidly between stitched and layered surfaces, textiles and garments, sculpted forms, film, and performative gestures, rediscovering what words could not yet hold.
Her mixed media artworks were created in New York, where the city's density, energy and cultural multiplicity became an invisible material in her process shaping the works from within.
CODEX · INFANS INTERIOR SEMPER VIVIT
The inner child lives forever
CODEX · ARS EST VIA AD CONSCIENTIAM
Art is the path to consciousness
CODEX · NOVUS MUNDUS IN CORDE NASCITUR
The new world is born in the heart
Chapter 02
MIXED MEDIA WORKS
Created in New York, USA · 2024–2025

Work 01 / 04
Perlin
2024 · New York, USA
Sequins · Textile · Beads · Symbolic gold leaf · Gold powder
A presence bridging time and realms, embodying inner change and subtle transformation. Material accumulation becomes a language of transition glimmering, unstable, alive.

Work 03 / 04
Péché Originel
2024 · 48 × 72 cm · New York, USA
Sequins · Textile · Beads · Symbolic gold leaf · Gold powder
Suspended figures embody curiosity and mischief, translating the first human transgression into color, material, and texture.

Work 02 / 04
Innocence
2024 · 60 × 72 cm · New York, USA
Acrylic with subtle textile stitching
Evokes childhood as a sensitive inner landscape, where innocence moves amidst subtle and layered forces. Paint and thread together hold what memory alone cannot the tender weight of becoming.

Work 04 / 04
Auranous
2025 · 36 × 26 × 6.5 cm · New York, USA
Textile sewn & beaded · Sculptural embroidery
Embodies love and enchantment a figure through which affection radiates and structures the surrounding space. Relief and depth are built by hand, stitch by stitch, bead by bead.
Chapter 03
CONCEPTUAL COUTURE
Les Enfants du Royaume
They bear the seal of the future. Immortal roots, the breath of ancestors. Born of an unseen throne, Les Enfants du Royaume rise in sovereign fullness, each creation a seal imprinted upon their essence, armour of light woven for eternity.

AMAZIGHUS
Free-rooted spirit. Guardian of boundless horizons.
White wool, hand-embroidered tribal motifs in bronze thread. Draped cape sleeves, structured mandarin collar, sculpted felt cap.

ROMANI
Wandering flame of tradition. Keeper of unbound freedom.
Structured white silk mikado, draped cape edged in deep navy satin. Hand-appliquéd solid gold elements, monumental symmetry.

FRANCUS
Unbroken fire of eternal French lineage.
White wool, gold embroidery in heraldic motifs. Draped cape, tricolor accents in red, white and blue, gilded gloves and cap.

PEULUS
River of eternal wisdom. Voice of the timeless herd.
Ivory silk satin, sculpted gold cisclé velvet, royal blue and carmine silk.

BASCUS
Stonebound heart. Echo of mountain eternities.
White wool, gold braided arabesques. Cape sleeves, navy velvet sash with hand-knotted tassels, embroidered fez.

ITALICUS
Soul of the peninsula. Echo of timeless streets.
Ivory jacquard, sculpted in architectural planes; Royal bmue velvet insignia, fleur-de- lis embroidered cap. Burgundy velvet boots, gilded points.
Chapter 04
FILM
Video Art · 2026
FILM · VIDEO ART
CODEX NOVUS
Scriptor
2026 · Video Art Direction & Creation Thymel
Codex Novus Scriptor is a video artwork in which the act of writing becomes a ritualistic gesture. The film traces the emergence of a new inner codex where personal mythology, memory, and material language converge into a living document.
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