Nefeli Papadimouli
Upcoming exhibition
Press release
T H E P I L L ® is pleased to present Nefeli Papadimouli’s first solo exhibition in Paris, from August 27 to September 27, 2025. This exhibition is part of a desire to reveal the contours of a singular artistic practice, spanning sculpture, textiles, video, and performance. It marks an important milestone in the presentation of the artist’s work, in dialogue with the gallery’s participation in Art Basel Paris from October 24 to 26, 2025, where a selection of Nefeli Papadimouli’s works will extend her ongoing reflections.
Conceived as an evolving installation, the new series Capsules consists of monumental amphorae inspired by ancient forms, designed as time vessels, with a textile installation in the background, where each piece carries the potential for a future sculpture in the drawing of the thread. The inner cavities of the amphorae evoke, through their human scale, bodies awaiting a gesture, a breath, a memory destined for the future. By intertwining ancient gesture with speculative vision, Papadimouli offers a meditation on the role of art as a witness, imprint, and vector of transmission through time.
In the video work The Calm That Keeps Us Awake (2025), Nefeli Papadimouli attempts to extend the body into space through sound. A female body, stretched out on a mountain, wearing a black-and-white costume covered in 10,000 bells, breathes in and out. Activated by the performance, the sculptural and sonic outfit relies on the subtlety of movement. The performer, with her face hidden, triggers vibrations by making delicate and mysterious gestures, at the boundary between dance and an unknown ritual. The sound vibrations abolish the borders between the outer and inner worlds, between environment and body. By integrating video, performance, and narrative, Nefeli Papadimouli expands her field of action: protected landscapes, daily ceremonies, autonomous communities, and figures of “new bodies” feed a research that blends critical engagement with poetic power.
Through her entire body of work, Nefeli Papadimouli imagines new forms of communities: anonymous, ephemeral, expandable, able to form and dissolve as they move through different spaces. This desire to “create the common” is nourished by a constant attention to the politics of the body and its social, spatial, and symbolic implications. Her approach proposes to reinvest public and intimate spaces, giving the body the power to act upon the world.
The artist’s consistent engagement with relational dynamics and collective movement places Papadimouli’s practice in direct relation to abstraction as both an artistic and political language. Her continuous play with the boundaries between sculpture, drawing, photography, living forms, and enduring media aligns her with historical avant-gardes.
Nefeli Papadimouli (b. Athens, 1988) lives between Paris and Athens.
Her recent solo exhibitions include Skinscapes, THE PILL (Istanbul, 2024), Parcours d’oeuvres contemporaines, Musée des Beaux Arts, CACN, Centre d’Art Contemporain & Carré d’Art (Nîmes, 2025); Étoiles partielles, cur. Claire LeRestif, Le Crédac, Ivry sur Seine (France, 2023); Relational Cartographies, cur. Keren Detton & Janny Devrient, Ter Posterie, Rosealare (Belgium, 2022) and Build the World of the You - ACTE, Le Concept, École d’Art du Calasisis, Calais (France, 2021).
