Natalya Konforti on Clubhouse

Bio

🇫🇷 /🇺🇸 Designer and Textile Artist based in Dubai

✏️ Design work @glitchesandstitches focused on creative workshops, influencer events and in-store activations

🤝 Collaborations and projects with:
Dubai Design Week, Jameel Art Centre, Dubai Mall, Levi’s, Charlotte Tilbury among others

📰 Creative workshops span from embroidery to DIY cosmetics and have been featured in publications including Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Pop Sugar and The National

🪡 My art practice is a reflection on cultural cross-polination and consists mainly of mixed media; applying techniques of textile craftsmanship to unexpected materials

🐙 Currently working on an epistolary installation @sisteroctopi

Sister Octopi is a long-distance art project created in collaboration with my cousin, London-based painter Justine Formentelli. Particularly relevant in current times of social distancing, the immersive installation when assembled is a forest of floating tentacles, each reading like threads of conversation between two artists. Visitors are to wander through the hanging jungle, suspending disbelief and immersing themselves in a strange and otherworldly environment.

Separated by oceans and several time zones, we designed a format allowing us to create together from different locations, ironically making it perfectly adapted to today’s pandemic lifestyle. Loosely inspired by the surrealist art game “Exquisite Corpse”, we conceived connecting paper panels exchanged via email. Each scroll is a total collaboration, having both created alternating sections in response to the other’s art.

Instagram.com/sisteroctopi
Glitchesandstitches.com/sister-octopi
Sister Octopi Documentary: https://youtu.be/J_l2eNnXrhs