Nefeli Papadimouli — In the Folds of the World, Endlessly — The Pill Gallery — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Ends in about 1 month: June 6 → July 25, 2026

The Pill is pleased to announce Nefeli Papadimouli’s second solo exhibition in Paris titled In the Folds of the World, Endlessly between 6 June and 25 July 2026.

Presenting a new body of work, the exhibition opens with Endlessly, a performance conceived for Nuit Blanche. At the heart of In the Folds of the World, Endlessly lies the artist’s new series Folders — an evolving body of wearable sculptures, painted textiles, and performance that examines the fragmented human form and its rearticulation through interconnected moving parts. Positioning our catastrophic present as both a bodily archive and a point of departure, the exhibition reflects on the porous boundaries between landscape and figure, organism and environment. Drawing on the organic vocabularies of Art Nouveau, Folders develops a language of abstract geometric motifs and patterns derived from vegetal and bodily forms. The series investigates how bodies, communities, and landscapes respond to crisis, embrace impermanence, and imagine pathways toward repair and resilience.

Working at the intersection of sculpture, painting, textile, architecture, and performance, Papadimouli brings together vast painted textile landscapes and sculptural assemblages that function simultaneously as pictorial surfaces, shelters, bodily vessels, and prosthetic extensions. Her sculptures operate as archives of corporeal experience — preserving fragments of the human form while opening new modes of movement, interaction, and collective presence. Disjointed sculptural fragments designed for specific parts of the body are held together by textile skins that simultaneously bind, restrain, and regenerate the human figure into new articulations.

The exhibition continuously shifts scale—from the fragment of a body, to the collective body, to the landscape. Through these movements, the artist investigates the relational ecosystems that emerge when material bodies encounter one another and their environments. Throughout the opening night, performers activate the suspended painted textiles, wearing the landscapes like a second skin. What first appears as a static image gradually undergoes a radical metamorphosis: inert matter becomes living epidermis, landscape becomes movement, and the body itself dissolves into an ever-shifting environment. Individual corporeality recedes as the landscape emerges as a collective, embodied presence, animated through the continuous transformation of the bodies that inhabit it.

The performance imagines collapse not as an endpoint but as a condition for renewal, where bodies and landscapes continually dissolve and reform into new modes of collective existence. In this space of perpetual becoming, In the Folds of the World, Endlessly imagines new forms of coexistence grounded in interdependence, resilience, and collective presence.