Chloé Bensahel
Portrait of Chloé Bensahel. (c) de la Motte
Oui Design! Los Angeles Immersion Grantee & Textile Artist
Born in 1991, Chloé Bensahel is a French-American artist who combines performance, textiles and multimedia. Inspired by her own family’s multicultural history, she combines storytelling and craft traditions in her work to create an integrated or coded language. Since 2019, with the support of Mobilier National and Google Arts and Culture, her work has focused on the dialogue between textiles and technology, creating pieces that sing and light up in response to the viewer’s movements. Her recent work also explores plant materials to imagine how the history of a place can be told through its plants.
Her works have been exhibited worldwide, notably at the Australia Tapestry Workshop in Melbourne and the Palais de Tokyo. Following an Albertine residency in 2023, she is now an affiliate researcher at the MIT Media Lab in Zach Lieberman’s Future Sketches group around computational craft.
Gallery
Take a look at a selection of Bensahel’s work below.
