Chalisée Naamani, Biennale de Nice, 2022. Courtesy the Artist and Ciaccia Levi, Paris-Milan.

You can cut all the flowers

But you can't keep spring from coming

“It’s in the midst of flowers and hearts, gold chains and costume hangers, behind Tati curtains and above an almost branded Comme des Garçons carpet, that Chalisée Naamani’s cosmopolitan universe unfolds. At once virtual and real, dreamlike and authentic, and always 100% bling.”

Chalisée Naamani, Installation view at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 2020

Bâche 1 Rue, Bâche 2 Atelier, Bâche 3 Maison, Bâche 4 Boutique, 2020, Printed PVC tarpaulin, 450 × 320 cm (each)

Courtesy the Artist and Ciaccia Levi, Paris-Milan.

“Instagram and her iPhone are boundless sources from which Chalisée Naamani fishes out a jumble of iconic or intimate figures, that she combines in a perfectly controlled effervescence. The wallpaper let out her readings, and sometimes her own reflection, or even those of the places and symbols that make up her world, itself a fragment of a digital-virtual macrocosm in which the flow is never completely contained, but where life is pleasant once you manage to uncover connections and bonds.”

- Horya Makhlouf, 2021