As always, in Marcel Zelmanovitch’s creations, the scenes and materials are intimately linked, they play together and communicate with one another to form a coherent composite. The common thread here is the raw aspect as the collection’s title suggests.The adjective is used here for its several meanings. Firstly, “raw” describes the shapes: there is a freedom of movement in the layout, sometimes brutal, a feeling of a first and final take that the author delivers openly; “raw” then, is also the material used in its unwrought state, undyed wool of the natural colour of sheep, the use of the raw material in its unmanufactured state its irregularities strengthening the expression of its rawness; “raw” finally is the kind of knot, a loose senna knot that wipes out the rhythm of the weave giving a more solid appearance to the material…