國際紙纖維藝術雙年展於2012年誕生在南法色芬山的小城維甘。其主旨為：

• 以纖維為主媒材，並以紙工藝作為藝術形式，以展示當代紙纖維藝術家使用的各種特殊技巧。
• 鼓勵紙纖維藝術家多多思考其使用的媒材，以及某些現代藝術媒材可能造成的負面影響。
• 展示各種與大自然和環保相關的主題。
• 鼓勵紙纖維藝術家以富有意義的方式和社會、藝術界、以及自身內在的創造力進行對話。

Eco-Sublime 中的「Eco」，指的是廣義的生態系、對周遭環境（自然或人工）的覺察、以及對於環保的重要性和現代人類生活方式對地球造成的負面效應的瞭解。

「Sublime」則有多層含意。大自然中的「sublime」（壯美）傳統上在17世紀早期常為浪漫主義畫家的創作主題。知名畫家透納（JMW Turner，1775-1851）是這方面的開山鼻祖，他將大自然描繪成一種震攝人心、強大、具毀滅性，卻又同時美麗、具有微妙而複雜的力量，挑戰著人類感官的極限。自此之後，許多藝術家也嘗試以不同的方式表達這些壯美的感受。因此，「壯美的自然」可以用來表示恐怖卻又令人驚嘆的自然力量。不以美麗的風景作為表現，而是引出未來可能發生的生態災難或世界毀滅等情形。而這些情形全是人類親手造成的。

展覽時間：2017年10月6日（五）至2018年3月9日（五）

展出作品：共計51組件

The International Biennial - Paper - Fibre - Art was created in 2012 in the small town of Le Vigan in the Cevennes region in the south of France. The aim was to:

• Present fibre as the main medium and paper art as a fine art form in order to showcase the unlimited and unique techniques used by contemporary paper & fibre artists.
• Encourage fibre & paper artists to consider the materials they use and the negative effects caused by some modern art materials.
• Present themes that engage with nature and with the conservation of the natural world.
• Encourage paper and fibre artists to connect in a meaningful way with society, with the art world and with their own inner creativity.

These ideals have since evolved into today’s theme ECO SUBLIME.

Eco relating to Ecology in its widest sense, awareness of the environment around us both natural and man made, an awareness not only of the need to protect the natural environment, but also of the negative effects imposed on the planet by our modern life styles.

Sublime has so many connotations. The sublime in nature was traditionally communicated in the early 17th century by the romantic painters.  JMW Turner  (1775 – 1851) was the first to present nature as an awesome, overpowering destructive force that was at the same time the most beautiful, subtle and complex that man could ever view or experience. Since then, many artists have sought to express these sublime feelings in differing ways.

ECO SUBLIME, therefore, translates as that sense of natural forces both frightening and overwhelmingly exquisite, not presented to us as a fine landscape, but in the sense of a possible ecological disaster, a global breakdown or planetary melt down of the planet, one brought about by man’s own hand.

As fibre artists having chosen to work with pure natural materials, we are in the most unique and powerful position to communicate conceptual ideas surrounding issues of the natural environment.