Exhibition Opening & Artist Talk (DE/EN/ÖGS)
Chalisée Naamani: Octogone

We warmly invite you to celebrate the exhibition opening with us.

18:30 Artist Talk

Chalisée Naamani in conversation with PhD Noit Banai, Professor of Diaspora Aesthetics, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

19:30 Speeches (with translation in Austrian Sign Language)

→ Veronica Kaup-Hasler, City Councillor for Cultural Affairs and Science
→ Bruno Ducluzaux, Director of the French Cultural Institute
→ Guillaume Désanges, President Palais de Tokyo
→ Michelle Cotton, Artistic Director Kunsthalle Wien

Free admission

An exhibition of new and recent sculpture, print and textile-based work by French-Iranian artist Chalisée Naamani (b. 1995, Paris) will open in January. Naamani has referred to her sculpture as ‘image-garments’: These are produced via a process of layering and collaging imagery and text. Drawing from different ornamental traditions within decorative and fine arts, fashion and popular culture she quotes details from fabrics, paintings, personal photographs, images and archival documents sourced from the internet to produce soft sculpture that often takes the form of clothing or accessories. The artist’s first solo exhibition outside of France addresses questions of migration, motherhood, feminism, resistance and concepts of Heimat.

The exhibition is organised in collaboration with Palais de Tokyo, Paris.