In the Folds of the World, Endlessly: Nefeli Papadimouli

T H E  P I L L ® 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.

Nefeli Papadimouli (b. Athens, 1988) works across performance, sculpture, photography, drawing, costume design, moving image and installation.  Informed by utopian architectural and artistic avant-gardes as much as contemporary dance, her series of modular, connective, elastic sculptures functions at once as prompts for collective movement and architectures of assembly, investigating the interdependence of cultural and natural forms and exploring the notion of space through its relationship to the body. Conceived as spaces of encounter, her radically inclusive works manifest a desire to engage the bodies of performers and spectators, humans and non-humans, in gestures and reciprocal movements, in settings ranging from museum spaces to urban and natural environments. Like a second skin, her costumes both produce and dissolve the boundaries of the body, individual and collective, in a playful and emancipatory shift of perspective. The artist's continued engagement with relational patterns and collective movement places Papadimouli’s practice in direct relation to abstraction as an artistic and political language, while her playful blurring of boundaries between sculpture, drawing, photography, live forms and durational media associates her with the historical avant-gardes. 

Upon graduating from the School of Architecture of the National Polytechnical University of Athens, followed by an MFA at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts de Paris, Papadimouli was the recipient of the Artworks Fellowship from Stavros Niarchos Foundation (Greece, 2018) and the Prix Dauphine pour l’Art contemporain (France, 2019). Her recent solo exhibitions include Garden of Commons, Le Grand Café (Saint-Nazaire, 2026); The Calm That Keeps Us Awake, THE PILL (Paris, 2025); Parcours d’œuvres 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). She participated in institutional group exhibitions such as Faire corps, Fondation Hermès, Tokyo (Tokyo, 2025); In A Bright Green Field, New Museum x Deste Foundation, Benaki Museum (Athènes, 2025); Un été au Havre, cur. Gaël Charbau, (Le Havre, 2025); How To Hold Your Breath – 9e Biennale d’art asiatique (Taïwan, 2024) ; S’habiller en artiste. L’artiste et le vêtement, Musée du Louvre (Lens, 2025), Crossing The Water – 17e Biennale de Lyon (France, 2024) ; La Nuit venue, on y verra plus clair, cur. Anna Milone, Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau, Les Lilas (France, 2024); Être Forêts, Fondation MABA, Nogent-sur-Marne (France, 2024); Entre là, Casa Conti - Fondation Ange Leccia, Corsica, (France, 2023); Douze preuves d’amour, Révélations Emerige 2022, cur. Gaël Charbau, Paris (France, 2022); Transmeare, cur. Ida Soulard & Ulla von Brandenburg, FRAC Picardie, Amiens (France, 2022); Playground Festival, M Museum Leuven, (Belgium, 2021);  Archipel - quatres résidences, mille expériences, cur. Keren Detton, FRAC Grand Large, Dunkerque (France, 2021).