SOFIA CLEMENTINA HOSSZUFALUSSY

Sofia Clementina Hosszufalussy is an architect and artist who explores the interplay of textiles, space, and bodies through hand-weaving and experimental practices.

She created an intervention that drew on the archetypal spatial gesture of land markers to assert presence and identity through a universally legible device, while remaining open to reinterpretation and manipulation.
Exploring the theme of the flag, its materiality, scale, and image, she conceived and produced a site-specific artwork at Domaine de Boisbuchet that combined architectural clarity with textile sensibility.

The practice of weaving entered the project both as a literal act, through a hand-woven textile activation, and as a conceptual method: layering, interlacing, responding to tension and support.
She selected found and leftover materials not only for their economy and accessibility, but especially for their tactile and performative potential, as well as their intrinsic value as a memory of past interventions on site and in the Domaine de Boisbuchet workshop.

Her project reflected a hybrid practice, bridging architectural thinking and textile making. It resonated with the idea of a generous architectural device capable of supporting transformations without strictly prescribing them. In this sense, weaving became not only a metaphor but also a methodology: a way to engage with landscape, time, and communal identity through layered, attentive construction.

Inspired by Jean-François Millet’s 1857 realist painting The Gleaners and Agnès Varda’s 2000 documentary The Gleaners and I, she approached the conception and production process as a meticulous act of gathering materials left behind.

She carefully sourced, selected, and manipulated leftover materials from the Domaine de Boisbuchet workshop to create a hand-woven and hand-embroidered flag, intended as a layered narration of the site, intertwining what was found, practiced, and imagined there, and becoming an active material archive able to host and suggest different readings, manipulations, and stratifications.

The starting point of her project was the specific site and history of Domaine de Boisbuchet. The suggestive presence of the castle as a pivotal point led her to work with a flag as a representative and narrative device, weaving together the landscape, the place’s history, and the experience of the residency.

She drew inspiration from a historic map of Domaine de Boisbuchet from 1864, originally printed on silk intertwined with the paths walked through the landscape and patterns found in the castle’s attic rooms, informing the layered and intuitive design of the flag.

The project was realized in two parts: the flagpole, assembling several pieces of aluminium, some cast directly on site; and the textile flag, for which she built a loom and wove leftover materials from the workshop, before painting and embroidering parts of the hand-woven textile as intertwined layers.

The complete work, composed of an architectural and structural device and a slow, delicate, almost fragile textile, was then presented by placing the flagpole on the castle’s roof balcony and raising the flag on a cloudy, windy day.

Photos : Manon Arrougé