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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

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​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

Wandering flame of tradition. Keeper of unbound freedom.

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. 

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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.

Unbroken fire of eternal French lineage

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Wandering flame of tradition. Keeper of unbound freedom.

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. 

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PEULUS

River of eternal wisdom. Voice of the timeless herd.

Ivory silk satin, sculpted gold cisclé velvet, royal blue and carmine silk. 

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BASCUS

Stonebound heart. Echo of mountain eternities.

White wool, gold braided arabesques. Cape sleeves, navy velvet sash with hand-knotted tassels, embroidered fez.

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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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