Jambière et Pistolet de couture (Dumptrump)

Chalisée Naamani

BornNationalityBased In
1995FrenchParis
Biography

In a research where painting, sculpture, popular culture, fashion and technology intersect, becoming a fertile ground for cultural intertwining and linguistic exchange, Chalisée Naamani’s works are the result of a process that combines photographic prints with polymateric assemblages in soft, irregular shapes, which in space draw gateways to rebuses and emotional tangles. The Iranian-origin French artist meditates on the political, cultural and evocative power of fashion, on its ability to pay «homage to history, and to the stories of the women and men who wear it», to quote the words of philosopher Marie-Aude Baronian. In fact, as Naamani explains, «I do not choose clothes for aesthetic reasons alone. I try to tell stories through shapes, colours and suitable accessories. I obsessively archive images taken from everyday life, screenshots and scans that I then combine to create new ones». Between the folds of sculptures that have lost their geometric rationality, centred or collapsed in on themselves, peep familiar images from the artist's personal archive, Middle Eastern iconography, trap quotations, screensaver panoramas and digital collages. Everything overlaps and interlocks, as in an eternal scrolling, giving shape to a serial imagery populated by bold baroque outcomes and a continuous practice of construction and deconstruction. Stratifications of materials and experiences —virtual and real, spiritual and physical— inextricably intertwine. ...

Selected Artworks
Sacs à dos porteurs d'images
Chalisée Naamani
Sacs à dos porteurs d'images, 2020
282 x 44 x 38cm
French kiss and Orientalism
Chalisée Naamani
French kiss and Orientalism, 2023
108 x 100 x 27cm
Athéna
Chalisée Naamani
Athéna, 2023
100 x 140 x 37cm
Cape et gilet jaune
Chalisée Naamani
Cape et gilet jaune, 2020
98 x 87 x 18cm
Jambière et Pistolet de couture (Dumptrump)
Chalisée Naamani
Jambière et Pistolet de couture (Dumptrump), 2020
90 x 60cm
Sacs à dos porteurs d'images
Chalisée Naamani
Sacs à dos porteurs d'images, 2020
282 x 44 x 38cm
Cape et gilet jaune
Chalisée Naamani
Cape et gilet jaune, 2020
98 x 87 x 18cm
Not fake
Chalisée Naamani
Not fake, 2022
212 x 66 x 32cm
Branded and Worthy of love
Chalisée Naamani
Branded and Worthy of love, 2022
172 x 64 x 34cm
French kiss and Orientalism
Chalisée Naamani
French kiss and Orientalism, 2023
108 x 100 x 27cm
Keep calm and Fall in love
Chalisée Naamani
Keep calm and Fall in love, 2023
68 x 99 x 50cm
Athéna
Chalisée Naamani
Athéna, 2023
100 x 140 x 37cm
Our love will defeat you
Chalisée Naamani
Our love will defeat you, 2023
100 x 100cm
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