Nina Azoulay was born in Paris in 1992. She lives and works in Paris.

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?

Curator: Maëlle Dault

The Project Room is the Frac’s new prospective and experimental space, located in the last room of the Plateau. It offers the opportunity to present research, diploma, grant and residency projects to French and foreign artists, preferably from the Île de France region. This reactive and flexible programming is also built in dialogue with the essential structures supporting creation, and particularly young creation, but also art schools and universities in the Paris region or internationally.