Octogone: Chalisée Naamani's "clothing-images" exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo - our photos

An exhibition of fashion and sport at the Palais de Tokyo... From June 13 to September 7, 2025, the museum is hosting an exhibition of works by Chalisée Naamani, entitled Octogone. The Franco-Iranian artist unveils a site-specific installation of photographs, digital collages, composite sculptures and clothing-images.

Conceived from the exhibition space, this installation questions the different ways of constructing, inhabiting and representing one's own body. The artist was inspired in particular by the partial geometric shape of the site, which she sees as evoking an unfinished octagon and the Iranian zurkhaneh, a practice space combining bodybuilding, struggle and resistance.

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An arena of interacting images and bodies

Theinstallation is organized like an arena, a podium or a sports hall. The works parade or interact with different body types, whether that of her grandfather, a muscular body worked in the gym, or that of a newborn baby.

Personal images mingle with anonymous archives from the Internet, social networks and history books. " Images are bodies, and bodies are images, which it is up to anyone to shape as they wish in order to exist, resist and live freely," explains the museum in a press release.

A practice between sculpture, archives and social networks

Chalisée Naamani 's creative process involves combining photographic prints with a variety of materials to create sculptural objects that resemble paintings. The images she collects, often via her phone or online, are mixed and printed on textiles, evoking the aesthetics of scrolling on networks.

Trained at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, she has exhibited in such venues as Galerie Ciaccia Levi, Art-O-Rama, La Galerie de Noisy-le-Sec andInstitut Reiffers. She has won several awards, including the Pinacoteca Agnelli 's Pista 500 prize in 2023. And the opportunity to discover her work at the Palais de Tokyo... Shall we drop in?

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