Françoise Bridel works by assembling, pasting, sewing, combining images and colours, on fabric or paper. She is interested in the multiplicity of meanings associated with the words "hooking" and "hanging" and the relationship they establish and reinforce between the space, the work and the audience. Regarding both as a form of intervention and a means of marking one’s area, Bridel investigates the implicit connotations that exist on a linguistic, social and cultural level. There is an intrinsic sense of mobility in the words and therefore this becomes a project that is in a constant state of flux and movement, a continuous awareness of the existence of gravity as a force which threatens the state of elevation implicit in hanging or hooking.     For In a furnished flat in Cairo, Bridel integrates pieces of her artistic work in the furniture of the flat and, in the same way, integrates the flat's furniture in her artistic work. Françoise Bridel lives and works in Geneva. Since 1989, she has been teaching colour at the Ecole des arts décoratifs. She also works as a graphic designer. Her comissions include work for Hall-Palermo, Geneva (2003), 50 years of the Geneva Conventions (1999) and Galeria del Claustro, Lisboa, 1996. Her work has been exhibited thoughout Europe and in New York.