ARTISTS
WAFA AOUN is interested in the movement of matter on the body that she concretizes through clothing. In her approach, she tends to purify the garment to keep only the geometric structure by limiting the seams. She gives a major importance to the ways of making, the process of construction as well as the techniques and ways of putting on a garment. Her hanging pieces appear as abstract forms that she conceives as an itinerary. She has been in residence at the Villa Belleville since May 2015 to develop her Unfolded Pieces project, a series of one-piece garments that fold, roll or cross over the body. Clothes that are made up of a formal number of gestures to be worn and have the purpose of revealing their own construction.
She has been active since 2003, collaborating and working on projects with: Rabih Kayrouz - Milia M - Robert Clergerie - Gant Causse - Muñoz Vrandecic - Gustavo Lins - Ana Luiza fashion office - Becquet Linge de maison - Valerie Gregory MCkenzie - Mangeons design Beirut - Jocelyne Saab - Nadim Deaibes - Zico House - Espace SD - Caroline Tabet - Zeina Hanna - Danya Hammoud - Tereza Acevedo - Hayla Saab Demelero - Atsuchi Takenouchi - Charles Essombes - Raia Haidar - Nadim Tabet - Cite de la mode et du design - Salon made in France She will present a stage of her Unfolded Pieces project at the Dominique Fiat gallery in Paris on September 11 and 12.