PAULINE FAIEFF
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“My art encourages reconnection with oneself and breaking free from social stereotypes to build a future rooted in self-expression and liberation.”
PAULINE FAIEFF
BIOGRAPHY
Raised in Martinique, Pauline Faieff works across photography and conceptual art, building projects around one central question: what does the visitor actually experience, not just what do they see.
That instinct shaped her Rome debut, the Alphabet: first breath, a show where visitors weren't kept at a distance from the work, but invited to touch it. It's the kind of decision that looks small until you realize how rarely it's made.
NANA represents Pauline as one of the artists it's betting on before the market has caught up, an artist whose work is built for an audience first, and a market second.
THE ALPHABET
the Alphabet is a visual language composed of 26 photographs, 26 letters, and 26 female presences. In each image, Pauline Faieff’s nude body traces the shape of a letter. Each one is paired with a woman’s name and a poetic phrase. Image, name, and text overlap without ever fully explaining one another.
Yet the project’s singularity lies in its genesis: these letters were not constructed by the artist. They were discovered.
For eight months, she works alone, across three sessions in which no make-up, artificial lighting, or staging is used.
Nearly 500 photographs are produced. Gradually, 26 forms emerge, composing an entire alphabet, revealed retrospectively through the folds, tensions, and movements of the body. This gesture recalls the phenomenological epoché: the suspension of what we think we know in order to allow what was already there to appear differently. Here, Pauline Faieff suspends the conventional representations of the female body, so often desired, judged, censored, and corrected, to return to a presence that precedes these imposed meanings.
Each visitor is invited to lift the letters of the Alphabet to discover the poem associated with each one. Through this gesture, they become an active participant in the exhibition.
Letter A
La résilience
/ʁe.zi.ljɑ̃s/
nom féminin
(pl. résiliences)
To thank each hindered step for what it has revealed.
Letter I
L'audace
/o.das/
nom féminin
(pl. audaces)
To dare authenticity in a masked world.
Letter J
La quiétude
/kje.tyd/
nom féminin
(pl. quiétudes)
To soothe tensions in a world ignited by egocentricity.
Letter E
La fragilité
/fʁa.ʒi.li.te/
nom féminin
(pl. fragilités)
To marvel at the strength of being weak.
Letter F
La bienveillance
/bjɛ̃.vɛ.jɑ̃s/
nom féminin
(pl. bienveillances)
To ignite one’s own light to radiate toward others.
Letter L
La rédemption
/ʁe.dɑ̃p.sjɔ̃/
nom féminin
(pl. rédemptions)
To forgive oneself for not knowing how to love oneself.
MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS
‘La rédemption’ (Letter L, the Alphabet), acquired by Digital Francisco Carolinum / OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH, Linz (Austria)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Collection Francisco Carolinum - 3 Blockchains, one Collection, Francisco Carolinum Muséum, Linz (Austria)
Solo exhibition ‘The Alphabet: First Breath’, Porte Rosse, Rome (Italy)
‘The Frame Project’ in My Body Language, Artverse Gallery, Paris (France)
‘Longing for Oneness’, New York (USA)
‘Longing for Oneness’, NFC Lisbon (Portugal)
‘Longing for Oneness’, Paris (France)
‘Nature’s Painting’, Paris (France)
‘Nature’s Painting’, Tokyo (Japan)
‘The Unacceptable Frame’, ‘La Grande Dame’ & ‘Golden Cage’, Miami (USA)
‘Nature’s Painting’, Miami (USA)
‘Muted Messages: The Censorship in Art’, Rome (Italy)
‘Unveiling Freedom’, Lisbon (Portugal)
‘Ephemeral Bodies: Veils Between Life and Death’, Naples (Italy)
Banana Conf, Tallinn (Estonia)
‘Kaleidoscope of Collective Visions’, Paris (France)
‘Nature’s Painting’, Art Lab, Ghent (Belgium)
‘Paulus’, Istanbul (Turkey)
‘Bared Intimacy: Oscillations of Mystery & Revelation’, Lezar Gallery, Barcelona (Spain)
‘Les Balades de Pauline’, Crypto Art Seoul, Seoul (South Korea)
‘My Body, My Rules’, IHAM Gallery, Paris (France)
‘My Body, My Rules’, Lisbon (Portugal)
‘Nude Photography Lab’, Lisbon (Portugal)
‘Terracotta’, Bali (Indonesia)
‘Terracotta’, Mecenate Fine Art, Rome (Italy)
"The nude art because it is my therapy to love myself without wearing a mask, because it is the first step to learn to be true to oneself, to stop believing that a perfect body exists and to finally accept our own imperfections that make us all so beautiful in our differences."
PRESS ARTICLES
Il Messaggero – Il corpo che torna a parlare: Pauline Faieff porta a Roma The Alphabet: First Breath
Arte.it – The Alphabet: First Breath
Corriere dello Spettacolo – Roma, a Porte Rosse debutta The Alphabet: First Breath di Pauline Faieff: il corpo diventa linguaggio visivo
The Gram Journal – The Body Becomes an Alphabet: Pauline Faieff Makes Her Debut in Rome
Tuscia Times – Roma, a San Lorenzo la mostra The Alphabet: First Breath di Pauline Faieff
Panzoo – Pauline Faieff: The Alphabet: First Breath
Prima Notizia 24 – A Roma arriva The Alphabet: First Breath: il corpo diventa linguaggio nella mostra di Pauline Faieff
Narranto – Roma, al via la mostra The Alphabet: First Breath di Pauline Faieff
Le Finestre di Parigi – The Alphabet: First Breath di Pauline Faieff
Cavaliere News – The Alphabet: First Breath: a Roma arriva il nuovo progetto artistico di Pauline Faieff
Spotlight – The Alphabet: First Breath
Terza Pagina Magazine – Roma, a San Lorenzo la mostra The Alphabet: First Breath di Pauline Faieff
Fatti Italiani – Roma, San Lorenzo: la mostra The Alphabet
Blogshifts – Il corpo come alfabeto: a Roma si inaugura The Alphabet: First Breath di Pauline Faieff
La Cronaca di Roma – L’arte da attraversare: Pauline Faieff e il respiro della comunità romana
InItaly – Mostre a Roma: cosa vedere nel weekend di luglio 2026
RomaToday – The Alphabet: First Breath, la mostra
Objects Mag – Il corpo come alfabeto poetico di Pauline Faieff
Spotlight – The Alphabet: First Breath
Fisheye Immersive – The Alphabet, dans les coulisses de la dernière œuvre féministe de Pauline Faieff
24 Hours of Art – Weekly Dose of Art: Alphabet of Self
“We cannot build a new world without a new language.”
INGEBORG BACHMANN