À l'accélération et à l'oubli
A visual artist, Nina Fradet explores the intersections between visual arts, design, and craftsmanship. Following her studies, she refined her practice through extended stays in Iceland and Japan. In 2024, her residency at Villa Kujoyama enabled her to initiate a unique dialogue between takezaiku – the traditional art of bamboo weaving – and cabinetmaking.
By transposing the principle of weaving into solid wood, she diverts traditional techniques to create monumental structures that combine apparent fragility with remarkable mechanical strength. Stripped of any functional purpose, her works explore the sensitive qualities of material and the expressive nature of gesture.
Her practice questions the boundaries between visual arts and craftsmanship, while also affirming the ecological relevance of an ancestral technique that relies on neither glue nor polluting materials.
