CHLOE BENSAHEL

Chloe Bensahel is a Franco-American artist who blends performance, textiles, and emerging technologies to highlight the relationship between language and identity, text and textile. She was born in 1991 and lives and works between Paris and Boston.

Inspired by her own intergenerational history of migration, her work examines how materials can carry stories the way bodies do, sometimes covertly as embodied or coded language. Bensahel thus weaves, spins, tears, or strips materials from one state to another, in compositions that capture a trace of the material’s previous life.

Recent works include collaborations with Google Arts and Culture on conductive thread technologies to allow textiles to speak through touch. Recent projects include a residency with MIT media Lab researchers in 2024 as part of Villa Albertine and an exhibition at Palais de Tokyo as part of the 2024 Prix des Amis du Palais de Tokyo. She is also currently Affiliate Researcher at the MIT Media Lab. Her work is part of the collection of FRAC IDF, France, the collection of Mobilier National, Paris, France, the collection of Google Arts and Culture, Paris, France and Alberto and the Mari de La Cruz Collection, New York, USA.