Madame Tricot

Madame Tricot grew up in Paris in a family of designers. Torn between art and science, she studied medicine and, at the Ecole du Louvre, art history. For 40 years she has practiced psychiatry as Dominique Kaehler Schweizer MD in Wil (St. Gallen), Switzerland. She discovered and perfected knitting as an art form, to serve as a hobby alongside her career. Madame Tricot loves to push boundaries. She embraces humour and kitsch, the macabre, and the intrigue of ambiguity. She specialises in 3D objects, depicting perishable goods in more or less fresh condition. As medical doctor, the line between life and death has always gripped her. She finds the knitting of food particularly appealing, especially meat, which hangs persistently on the edge of life and decay. Her work has been exhibited at several museums in Switzerland.