After studying at the prestigious Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts of Lyon, France, Olivia Babel made a specialization in Fiber Art at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-arts of Angers, France.
Specialized in fiber art, she is interested about concepts of territory and cartography.
Olivia Babel represents territories in all them forms in order to question our relation to environment.
She wants to show cartography in an other way. Olivia Babel is french and has differents origins around the world (Europe, Africa, Asia, South america...). Because of that, she shows her vision of the world fed by her origins, travels and cultures throught her artworks.
To create her pieces, Olivia Babel uses traditional french savoir-faire and wants to highlight handmade work. All her pieces are created in Lyon, France.All her pieces are handmade on looms
in her atelier in France. All techniques of weaving used are handmade, rare and precious. She takes an average one week to handweave one square meter of tapestry.