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Emilie Faïf, visual artist, November 2023, “Bathing” installation, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan. Emilie Faïf plays with visitors’ perceptions, joyfully inviting the youngest visitors to tackle the question of how the body is represented, a theme frequently explored in the artist’s works.
Emilie Faïf, visual artist, November 2023, “Bathing” installation, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan. “Bathing” is an installation inspired by the highly unusual context of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Scattered sculptures emerge from the ground like the emerging limbs of a bathing body.
Emilie Faïf, visual artist, November 2023, “Bathing” installation, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan. To create the installation, Emilie Faïf created the papier-mâché sculptures using the craft paper from the bakers’ large flour bags.
Emilie Faïf, plastic artist, September 2023, textile installation, recycled fabrics, Elitis, Paris. For Designer’s Days, Elitis invites the plastic artist Emilie Faïf to invade their showroom on rue Saint Benoit.
Emilie Faïf, plastic artist, September 2023, textile installation, recycled fabrics, Elitis, Paris. For Designer’s Days, Elitis invites the plastic artist Emilie Faïf to invade their showroom on rue Saint Benoit.
Emilie Faïf, plastic artist, September 2023, textile installation, recycled fabrics, Elitis, Paris. For this occasion, Emilie Faïf creates a new textile installation composed of a generous and joyful accumulation of organic forms.
Emilie Faïf, plastic artist, September 2023, textile installation, recycled fabrics, Elitis, Paris. For this occasion, Emilie Faïf creates a new textile installation composed of a generous and joyful accumulation of organic forms.
Emilie Faïf, plastic artist, September 2023, textile installation, recycled fabrics, Elitis, Paris. Made from recycled and re-dyed linen fabrics from previous collections, this corne of abundance, an ode to colour, seems to extend beyond the window display, inviting passersby to immerse in the textile universe of the Elitis textile house.
Emilie Faïf, plastic artist, September 2023, textile installation, recycled fabrics, Elitis, Paris. Made from recycled and re-dyed linen fabrics from previous collections, this corne of abundance, an ode to colour, seems to extend beyond the window display, inviting passersby to immerse in the textile universe of the Elitis textile house.
Emilie Faïf, visual artist, October-November 2022, creation of textile sculptures for the show “Le Petit B” by the choreographer Marion Muzac. Emilie Faïf creates a scenography that is almost monochrome in order to allow the installation to stand out in the spaces. A surface of approximately 6X6 metres unfolds on the floor. The dancers are immersed in it, their bodies merged with it.
Emilie Faïf, visual artist, October-November 2022, creation of textile sculptures for the show “Le Petit B” by the choreographer Marion Muzac. Emilie Faïf’s scenography can be handled: one can push, pull, roll, caress these modules… Be one with them… Be lifted, transported, moved by the dancers.
Emilie Faïf, visual artist, October-November 2022, creation of textile sculptures for the show “Le Petit B” by the choreographer Marion Muzac. A reactive undulation: under the impulse of gestures, the textures of this installation are transformed: soft, light, heavy, supple… states of body in perpetual evolution.
Emilie Faïf, plastic artist, June 2021, creation of textile sculptures for the performance “MU” by the choreographer Marion Muzac. For the show MU by choreographer Marion Muzac, Emilie Faïf creates sculptures, like timeless totemic figures reminiscent of phantasmagorical landscapes. © photo Edmon Carrère
Emilie Faïf, plastic artist, June 2021, creation of textile sculptures for the performance “MU” by the choreographer Marion Muzac. The dancer Aimée-Rose Rich evolves with softness and humor in an enigmatic universe populated with virtual, sports, and sometimes ancestral references. © photo Edmon Carrère
Emilie Faïf, plastic artist, June 2021, creation of textile sculptures for the performance “MU” by choreographer Marion Muzac. MU is also a celebration of the absurdity of these glorious bodies that feed the fantasy of power and greatness. © photo Edmon Carrère
Emilie Faïf, plastic artist, June 2021, creation of textile sculptures for the performance “MU” by the choreographer Marion Muzac. The textile work of Emilie Faïf is oriented on the re-use of fabric strips which constitute the raw material of these sculptures.
Emilie Faïf, plastic artist, June 2021, creation of textile sculptures for the performance “MU” by the choreographer Marion Muzac. Tied one by one, these fragments of fabric draw pointillist and hypnotic silhouettes navigating between past and future.
Emilie Faïf, plastic artist, June 2021, creation of textile sculptures for the performance “MU” by the choreographer Marion Muzac. Tied one by one, these fragments of fabric draw pointillist and hypnotic silhouettes navigating between past and future.
Emilie Faïf, visual artist, April 2021, Mobile textile installation “On n’est jamais trop petit pour lire”, Pas-de-Calais. The Pas-de-Calais department has invited Emilie Faïf to design and create a modular reading space for toddlers and their caregivers. This textile installation is composed of a series of organic, padded and flexible forms, allowing to create a welcoming and protective space.
Emilie Faïf, visual artist, April 2021, Mobile textile installation “On n’est jamais trop petit pour lire”, Pas-de-Calais. These large rounded cushions are destined to be manipulated according to the needs of collective or small group readings. The colorful shapes, all unique, create a joyful appeal for the little ones.
Emilie Faïf, visual artist, April 2021, Mobile textile installation “On n’est jamais trop petit pour lire”, Pas-de-Calais. They remind us of the dreamlike world of children’s readings and can be manipulated by children as well as by mediators to become in turn a puppet, a hut, a fantastic animal or an imaginary figure.
Emilie Faïf, visual artist, March 2020, Mille Formes project, Center for art initiation for 0-6 year olds, Clermont-Ferrand, Centre Pompidou. Emilie Faïf, visual artist and scenographer, imagined and created a series of textile sculptures around the motif of the human body. These works are exhibited at “Milles Formes”, the first art initiation centre for 0-6 year olds, designed by the city of Clermont-Ferrand in partnership with the Centre Pompidou.
Emilie Faïf, visual artist, March 2020, Mille Formes project, Center for art initiation for 0-6 year olds, Clermont-Ferrand, Centre Pompidou. By conceiving this installation, Emilie Faïf highlights the intense and essential relationship of babies with their bodies, their mother’s but also their own, with the fragmented and progressive awareness of being one whole.
Emilie Faïf, visual artist, March 2020, Mille Formes project, Center for art initiation for 0-6 year olds, Clermont-Ferrand, Centre Pompidou. These various textile sculptures are inspired by this fragmentation in an installation composed of a series of forms that humorously constitute a vocabulary of the human body. The oversized sizes, the padded and welcoming shapes will be as many areas to explore for babies and their parents.
In September 2018, Emilie Faïf continued her work on the blown air and developped a serie of wind sculptures of great dimensions for the stylist Chloe Stora to be settled inside the Saint Sulpice Windows.
Emilie Faïf sculptures are projecting us in a light, moving and organic world.
Half way between a vegetal and an aquatic universe, the leaving forms Emilie Faïf imagines are made of stitched polyane and painted with soft rose colours.
Emilie Faïf’s new installation « Nuage » is presented during the collective exhibition « l’Atlas des Nuages » at the François Schneider Fondation at Wattwiller until the 30th September 2018.
A detail of the “Nuage’ softness alveolar structure.
“Nuage”, Emilie Faïf’s cloud.
Emilie Faïf, visual artist, June – September 2018, artwork “Nuage” at the François Schneider Foundation in Wattwiller. The softness of Emilie Faïf’s “Cloud” reacts, adapts, deforms… it does not freeze, echoing the ambivalence and poetics of the formation of clouds, their changing and enigmatic outlines.
Emilie Faïf, visual artist, June – September 2018, artwork “Nuage” at the François Schneider Foundation in Wattwiller. Emilie Faïf presents her work ” Nuage ” at the new collective exhibition of the François Schneider Foundation in Wattwiller. The artist explores the potential of moving and unstable forms.
Emilie Faïf, visual artist, June – September 2018, artwork “Nuage” at the François Schneider Foundation in Wattwiller. Emilie Faïf creates a light and transparent sculpture, whose polyane surface has been meticulously elaborated and assembled point by point.
October 2017 － LET’S FOLK! Show- In collaboration with the choregrapher Marion Muzac. Emilie Faïf collaborate again with Marion Muzac on her new show, linking multiple folkloric dances as Breton fest-noz, Berber ahwash, etc.
October 2017 － LET’S FOLK! Show- In collaboration with the choregrapher Marion Muzac. As she was drawing directly on the dance mat, Emilie Faïf highlights the Territory notion and the local anchor of those traditional popular dances
October 2017 － LET’S FOLK! Show- In collaboration with the choregrapher Marion Muzac. The ornamental designs drawn on the floor with traditional White Meudon, tension the dance during the show. Over the footsteps, the drawings progressively blur to create a new geography, which will give witness to the strenght and the beauty of those collective human meeting.
Fall 2016 – Emilie Faïf designed the Fall window decor for Hermès France following the annual theme « Nature at full tilt ». Hermès, Avenue Georges V, Paris.
Fall 2016 – Each scene shows the fauna and flora in a generous and magical setting.
Fall 2016 – Fall windows, Hermès France 2016, Avenue Georges V, Paris.
Fall 2016 – Fall windows, Hermès France 2016, Avenue Georges V, Paris.
Fall 2016 – Fall windows, Hermès France 2016, Avenue Georges V, Paris.
Fall 2016 – Fall windows, Hermès France 2016, Avenue Georges V, Paris.
Chloe Stora’s windows installation in Emilie Faïf Studio.
March 2017 – CHLOÉ STORA.
March 2017 – CHLOÉ STORA.
March 2017 – CHLOÉ STORA.
March 2017 – CHLOÉ STORA. Wooden structures supporting the whole of these textile signs highlights the effect of profusion and off the wall style of the composition, facing a very organised, elegant and normative parisian environment.
March 2017 – CHLOÉ STORA.
Christmas 2017 – The installation “Lucky charms forest” shows textile sculptures on a red chrome structure representing a modern Christmas tree. Fabulous animals pool with european and chinese lucky charms in order to attract luck and happiness into L’AVENUE.
Christmas 2017 – « Lucky charms » – textile scultpures.
Christmas 2017 – « Lucky charms » – textile scultpures.
Christmas 2017 – « Lucky charms » – textile scultpures.
Christmas 2017 – Visitors are invited to play and move between these larger-than-life forms, for the joy of kids !
Christmas 2017 – “Lucky charms tree” – textile sculptures on a green chrome structure.
Christmas 2017 – Emilie Faïf’s creations combine the art of sewing and the search of the perfect fabric, to revamping the design of common forms and representations. “Lucky charms tree” – textile sculptures on a green chrome structure.
Christmas 2017 – On the occasion of Christmas 2017, L’AVENUE Shanghai asked Valérie Henry agency to imagine a modern European Christmas in the chinese city. The agency proposed a collaboration between three artists : Emilie Faïf , Cerise Doucède et Moyoshi. Emilie Faïf created three isntallations on three different levels.
Christmas 2017 – The “Lucky charms” installation representing shinny and colorful forms, invades the atrium space in L’AVENUE Mall.
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