Cécile Davidovici (b.1987) is a French artist living and working in Paris. She started her career as a writer/filmmaker and after many years settled upon an art form that was more tangible and relatable, textiles. Her most recent work, Portraits of a Constant Dream, is part of a series of female portraits, entirely hand embroidered. They portray a close up of one face which becomes two, with no clue as to the era. The faces are almost identical; however, one is always bigger, more present, hiding half of the other.

What hides beneath the surface? These women stare at us but in reality, they are looking within themselves, questioning their contradictions, revealing their doubts. Their openness and vulnerability even allow the audience to see a part of themselves when looking at the subjects. Davidovici places her own unique spin on the medium of textiles and by layering threads like a painter would with a paintbrush, she reinterprets the face differently, which in turn opens new dialogues on the topic of collective identity and history.