Performance: Chalisée Naamani
Chalisée Naamani, Born to be a princess, 2025. Detail. Child's sleeping bag, clothing, reclaimed fabrics and accessories, cotton fabric, beads, printed label 181×90×55 cm. Courtesy the Artist and Ciaccia Levi, Paris - Milan Photo Aurélien Mole
Arte Fiera and Fondazione Furla renew their collaboration for the live performance program curated by Bruna Roccasalva, Artistic Director of Fondazione Furla.
The artist invited to present a performance during the next edition of Arte Fiera is Chalisée Naamani (1995, France). She explores the construction identity and the mechanisms of bodily representation within contemporary visual culture weaving together elements of mainstream culture, art history and autobiography. Her works are often developed by assembling recycled materials and fabrics printed with images from a constantly expanding personal archive, taking form in what she calls vêtements-images or “image clothing”: garments conceived as paintings or sculptures never meant to be worn.
The project will once again be hosted in the Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, built in the park across from the fairgrounds in 1977 as a faithful reproduction of the original design by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret for the 1925 Exposition International des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. There, Naamani will be presenting new work that combines performance, sculpture, and installation.
Chalisée Naamani's project follows the performances curated by Bruna Roccasalva of the collective Public Movement (2023), Daniela Ortiz (2024) and Adelaide Cioni (2025
Chalisée Naamani. Photo: Aurélia Casse
Chalisée Naamani (b. 1995, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) trained at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux- Arts in Paris, where she lives and works. She has had solo exhibitions in galleries and in public institutions such as the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2025), Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin (2024), La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec (2021), and Art-O-Rama, Marseille (2021), and has participated in numerous group shows in spaces such as Hangar Y, Meudon (2024); Nice Biennal, Nice (2022); Poush, Paris (2022); Reiffers Institute, Paris (2022); La Villette, Paris (2022); BOZAR, Brussels (2022). She was awarded the Pista 500 Award of Pinacoteca Agnelli (2023), the Prix des Fondations for sculpture and installation (2021), and the Prix Benoît Doche de Laquintane (2021).