{"id":885,"date":"2025-08-15T21:10:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/?p=885"},"modified":"2025-09-06T21:12:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:12:26","slug":"franck-sorbier-the-subversive-el-dorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"Franck Sorbier: The Subversive El Dorado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Franck Sorbier gives nothing away.<br>He doesn&rsquo;t follow the times: he confronts them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His El Dorado isn&rsquo;t a promise.<br>It&rsquo;s a critique.<br>A mirror held up to modern illusions:<br>artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies, space exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faced with the mirage, he opposes matter.<br>Faced with the virtual, he imposes his hand.<br>Conquistadors and Incas confront each other in his fabrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each embroidery is a form of resistance.<br>Each gesture is a refusal to be forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Sorbier, Couture isn&rsquo;t a market.<br>It&rsquo;s an insurrection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Sorbier doesn&rsquo;t dream of El Dorado: he denounces its mirage.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>CHIKH Larbi, for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.the-8th-art.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cr\u00e9dit photo: FHCM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franck Sorbier gives nothing away.He doesn&rsquo;t follow the times: he confronts them. His El Dorado isn&rsquo;t a promise.It&rsquo;s a critique.A mirror held up to modern illusions:artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies, space exploration. Faced with the mirage, he opposes matter.Faced with the virtual, he imposes his hand.Conquistadors and Incas confront each other in his fabrics. Each embroidery is &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chikh-larbi","category-haute-couture","category-haute-couture-fall-winter-2025-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}