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Discrete medical embroidery, an exhibition by Martina Chiquet

Culture · Thursday, October 1 · 09:00 · Paris

Bibliothèque Goutte d'Or, 2-4 rue Fleury

Free

This exhibition is presented by Martina Chiquet, as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2026: the subject is breast cancer, a disease that affects one in seven women today. These drawings were created from photographs she took herself, among which she selected those that evoke the most significant stages of the disease, and for which the graphic aspect is also a criterion of choice. Some depict places, notably the hospital for those receiving treatment there, while others show the traces left on the body by the disease and its treatments…