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.

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).