THE WARDROBE of POSSIBLE SELVES
2026 September-October
Places :
Orangerie du parc de la tête d'Or - Lyon 6
Exhibition curators:
Sabine Feliciano
Olivia Ferrand
Sponsor of the event:
Nathalie Chaize
The clothing we wear is always an important element in our relationships to others. It is a sign of belonging—to a community, a region, a civilization, a tribe, or a faith. They may also become a form of collective artistic expression, whether in a carnival procession, a festive gathering, or an unconventional social group.
In The Wardrobe of possible selves, however, artistic expression emerges as a liberation of the individual imagination, freed from social conventions and prescribed identities.
It is a personal and unique visual adventure, where the inner voice unique to each artist is externalized into a bodily form, born from the very intimacy of their sensory and spiritual experience. The artist becomes an archaeologist of textiles, uncovering and rewriting the history of materials imbued with traces of former lives. In this exhibition, this personal liberation is possible only through craftsmanship.)
From the encounter between imagination and matter arise sculptural garments of unexpected beauty and shared wonder. At once extraordinary and timeless, these works embody the freedom of creation and evoke the celestial destiny offered to each of us.
Françoise Souchaud
Founder and President Mirabilia Lyon
Artists + Etudents
- Anne Guerrant
- Charlotte Limonne
- Christine Fayon
- Cindy Larrat
- Emmanuelle Sage Lenoir
- Eric Chambon
- Evelyne Postic
- Florence Bruyas
- Nathalie Faton & Jean-Paul Fermet
- Françoise Hoffmann
- Hélène Jospé
- Hélène Bret
- Jean-Marc Rimbot (Aspiration Indienne)
- La Maison et Musée du boutis Calvisson
- Laurence Font
- Laurence Oppermann
- Lucie Amiot
- Marie Pourchot
- Marion Oster
- Marion Hawecker
- Maud Agnesina
- Mona Luison
- Odile Mandrette
- Olivia Ferrand
- Paulina Fuentes Valenzuela
- Rasa Vilcinskaite
- Rose Pélagie de Matteis-Kouadio
- Sabine Feliciano
- Sara Brita Salamone
- Sophie Guyot
- Tiphaine Misstif
- Tina Marais
- Véronique Guicheret
- Xavier Brisoux
- Lycée Adrien Testud - Chambon Feugerolles
- Lycée Joseph Marie Jacquard - Oullins
- ENSATT Lyon
- CNSMD Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et danse de Lyon
CURATORS OF THE EXHIBITION
“Nothing is more human than clothing, nothing more important than what we would have us believe is futile.
We inhabit it; it keeps the memory of our body like the fingers of the one, or more often, the one, who sewed it. It allows us to show ourselves and draws us into dreams of metamorphosis.
Close to our skin, it is, like speech, a bridge between the inside and the outside. It is a language that has its commonplaces and its fabric poems of which the wardrobe of Destinies would be a collection.
Olivia Ferrand
Textile artist
"Clothes don't make the man. But they do give you more confidence. This remains to be confirmed, but the way we dress influences our behavior. Moreover, costumes have an impact on our way of thinking, a mode of escape.
Like language, clothing fascinates both by its universality and by the extreme diversity of forms it can take from one society to another. Its importance is confirmed by the interest that historians, folklorists, ethnologists, sociologists, and technologists have long shown in it, as well as by one of the most extensive bibliographies in existence: costumes.
Let's take the time to mix all these areas into a dynamic that would lead us for a few moments to a state of emotional trans, a Locker Room where the imagination is limitless."
Sabine Feliciano
Textile artist
EXHIBITION SPONSOR
Nathalie Chaize
Committed fashion designer and woman of heart who designs feminine collections.
nathaliechaize.fr
The important thing is not the goal, but the path.
The fashion I propose is above all an encounter. My childhood in Africa, and my many travels have shaped my vision and drawn this inalienable taste for colors, lights, the female body. Subsequently, training at the School of Architecture gave me this taste for the work of the line, that of curves and the sense of purity. My vision of fashion is a point of balance between these different experiences.
