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Karine N'Guyen Van Tham studied at the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design Marseille-Méditérranée and then trained as an upholsterer, developing a keen passion for textiles. In 2014, she began her apprenticeship as a self-taught weaver, before deciding in 2017 to design her own fabrics in the form of clothes. In the same year, her first mural item ‘Cérémonie lunaire’ – inspired by the traditional Kimono – was awarded the Prix Création de la Région Bretagne des Métiers d’art. Today she has her own atelier in Brittany. She has always thought of her textile works as items of inheritance and transmission, relics imprinted with life, scents, postures and emotions: the artist feels, writes, weaves, immerses her hands in vegetable dyes, embroiders, wears, sculpts and models.
Recent group exhibitions include: ‘Âmes sauvages’, Atelier Galerie Le 6, Morlaix, France, 2023; ‘Japanese Textile & Craft Festival’, Craft Central, London, UK, 2021; ‘Japanese Textile & Craft Festival’, Craft Central, London, UK, 2020; ‘Invisibles présences’, The Fibery, Fiber Art Gallery, Paris, France; ‘Parures, Objets d’art à porter’, Factory Museum, Roubaix, France, 2019; ‘L’atelier, d’Ateliers d’Art de France’, Paris, France; ‘Maison & Objet’, Paris, France, 2017.
Parul Thacker trained as a traditional weaver, studying Textile Design at the Sophia Polytechnic College of Art and Design in Mumbai (Bachelor of Arts) and specialising in weaving and printing techniques. At the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, she studied Fiber Art with Nita Thakore as her mentor. Since 2008, she has been working actively as an artist and has presented her works at India Art Fair, Art Dubai, Frieze London, Art HK and Shanghai Contemporary. She lives in Mumbai and often stays at Golconde, in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, where she studies and practices her art of sewn metaphysical drawings and woven sculptures.
Recent exhibitions include: ‘Surface’, curated by Mayank Mansigh Kaul, Sutrakala Foundation Jodhpur, India, 2023; ‘North Pole: a treatise on earth Arctic summer, art and science expedition’, International Territory of Svalbard, Norway, 2023; ‘Form: Flow a two-solo presentation’ by Amar Gallery, London, 2017; ‘Parul Thacker’, Beirut exhibition centre, 1x1 art gallery with Beirut Exhibition Center, Lebanon, 2015; ‘Approaching Abstraction’, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, India, 2015; ‘I For Inscription’, The Luxe Museum, Paradox and 1x1 art gallery with J. P. Morgan, Singapore, 2013; ‘One Year In Berlin’, Galerie Christian Hosp, Berlin, Germany, 2010; ‘Matrix Natura Miniarttextil’ Como 18th International Exhibition of Contemporary Textile Art, Como, 2008.
Daniela Ferretti, an architect specialised in the field of exhibition design, has set-up more than 250 shows for public and private entities since 1977, both in Venice and elsewhere, for which she has collaborated with many leading Italian and foreign art critics and historians.
She boasts collaborations with La Biennale di Venezia, Scuderie del Quirinale and Galleria Borghese in Rome, Barcelona’s CCCB, the Hayward Gallery in London, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Haus der Kunst in Munich, the Puskin Museum in Moscow, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, Palazzo Grassi and Palazzo Grimani in Venice. In addition to designing exhibitions, she is also experienced in organising them in their entirety. Head of the Exhibitions Office of Venice's Department of Culture, in 1996 she was appointed Coordinator of Shows and Exhibitions at the Venetian Civic Museums Directorate. She is a member of the International Committee for the reorganisation of the Piazza San Marco Museums and heads a number of projects aimed at the creation of a Contemporary Art System in Venice. She directed the Fortuny Museum from 2007 to 2019. In 2008, she was appointed director of Museum Area 3. She joined the Board of Directors of the Maeght Foundation of S. Paul de Vence. Proportio, curated alongside Axel Vervoordt and staged at Palazzo Fortuny, won the 2015 Leading Culture Destinations Awards for Best Exhibition of the Year.
Since 2019, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of Fondazione dell'Albero d’Oro in Venice. From 2020 to 2023, she curated and staged exhibitions in Aix en Provence, Turin, Padua and Venice.