FRIEZE LOS ANGELES
A SOLO PRESENTATION WITH ÉLISE PEROI
ON VIEW 02.26 – 03.01
BOOTH C03, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
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FRIEZE: Élise Peroi in Ten Solo Presentations at Frieze Los Angeles 2026
CARVALHO, New York, marks its inaugural Frieze Americas with a solo booth of French artist Élise Peroi, featuring a monumental textile installation that continues her poetic exploration of landscape, language and impermanence. This is the artist’s first time exhibiting in LA.
Through intricately woven constructions, Peroi’s practice situates itself within the expanded field of contemporary textile art, combining painting, craft and architectural traditions with conceptual depth. Peroi’s sculptural substrates allude to both Donald Judd and scaffolding—part architectural partition, part ephemeral forest. Built from wooden frames and woven with strips of shredded silk paintings, the panels act as translucent veils through which light passes, breathing like gills.
Peroi’s installations are not merely to be viewed, but activate the viewer’s body as a sensing, moving presence. Her commitment to handcraft is central to her practice. She approaches weaving not as technique but as a performative, durational act. After meticulously shredding her gouache on silk paintings into irregular ribbons, Peroi reconstructs them through the tapestry loom. Referencing both landscape painting and architectural partitioning, the work sits at the intersection of visual and spatial disciplines.
Peroi contributes to a growing dialogue around textile’s return to the center of contemporary art discourse. Her practice aligns with artists as Sheila Hicks, Olga de Amaral and Chiharu Shiota, who expand the language of fiber through sculptural, spatial and conceptual strategies. Peroi brings a distinctly lyrical and ecological dimension, rooted in fragility and the poetics of disappearance.
The central installation at Frieze, titled L'ocre du vent, consists of six tiered works, framing Peroi's luminous painted weavings. Surrounding this freestanding 14-foot gridded work, seven suspended tapestries scatter the walls as satellite companions.
Élise Peroi (b. 1990, Nantes, France) lives and works in Arles, France. Peroi holds an MFA in Textile Design from the Brussels Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts (2015). Recent and forthcoming highlights include her first U.S. solo exhibition at CARVALHO (2025), titled For Thirsting Flowers; an exhibition at Museo Sant’Orsola, Florence (2025); solo booths at Frieze Los Angeles (CARVALHO, 2026) and Art Basel in Basel (Galerie Benichou, 2026); the Pierre Cardin Prize for Sculpture (2025); and her selection as a 2026 Artsy Vanguard.
In 2024, at the invitation of fashion icon Giada Forte, Peroi created a series of towering architectural works using archival fabrics from forte_forte installed at the Wallonia-Brussels Delegation in Paris. In 2022, Peroi presented an ambitious exhibition of six largescale installations for the Centre d’Art Contemporain Chanot in France, titled A l’Ombre de nos Paupières Baissées (In the Shade of Our Downcast Eyelids). Other recent solo exhibitions include Vent Dominant, Galerie Anne-Sarah Benichou, Paris, France (2025) and House of Crystal, Hermès, Amsterdam (2024). Additional notable exhibitions include Fragilité: Hours and Hours, Křehký Mikulov Festival, Czech Republic (2025); Un Lac Inconnu, Bally Foundation, Switzerland (2023); Roma, a Portrait, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Italy (2023); and House of Dreamers, Boghossian Foundation, Belgium (2023).
CARVALHO (est. 2019) A synthesis of the Director’s background in performing and visual arts informs a distinct point-of-view that shapes the gallery’s cross-disciplinary program, privileging the sensorial experience of the art object and space. CARVALHO features international emerging and mid-career artists whose practices reconsider distinctions of increasingly fluid categorization – of the visual art, performing art, and craft realms – through dedicated inquiry and meticulous approaches to material and process. Exhibitions work to activate the viewer’s environment, expanding space for engagement and discourse between disciplines. At the close of 2023, on the cusp of its five-year anniversary, CARVALHO expanded its galleries into the adjacent building, doubling its exhibition space and program. The second gallery focuses on installation and performance, echoing the Director’s foundations, and allowing artists to realize more ambitious collaborations and projects.
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