Nina Azoulay graduated from the Art-Space section of Ensad in 2023, and works in installation, sculpture and drawing, as well as in a fragmentary style of writing she describes as “stacked poetry”. She uses fabrics of various shapes and colors taken from plaster blocks, colored round-headed pins, portmanteaus, ropes, curtain tiebacks, reflective sequins and found images. This attraction to textiles has led to research into the skin, raising questions about permeability, vulnerability, limits, vertigo, inheritance and possible transformations.

In a recent series of sculptures entitled Papillons de nuit, 2023, the reuse of second-hand clothing and the superimposition of fabrics purchased and/or made by the artist are combined with plexiglass, wood, metal and rope to create veritable silhouettes with singular identities. These sculptures, which bear the names of women (Rosalind, Olivia, Salomé), are posited from the outset as possible ghostly portraits, implicitly raising the fictional identity contained in each of them. Nina Azoulay’s attention to detail – the folds, certain rolls of fabric, their tension or floatiness – makes all the chosen ornaments attractive and graceful, but just as structural. Is identity wrapped up in the folds of trimmings?

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