PAULINE FAIEFF · SOLO SHOW · CURATED BY ANNELISE STERN
the Alphabet:
first breath
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PORTE ROSSE · ROME July 7- 12th 2026 OPENING July 7th, 6 PM
A COMPLETE VISUAL ALPHABET
Twenty-six photographs, twenty-six poems, one letter per image, each formed by the body alone. the Alphabet is not an exhibition to be admired. It asks to be joined.
Rome is the first breath: the first time these letters leave the screen and enter a room, the first time a visitor can stand before a letter that is also a body and recognise something of their own. Its true subject is freedom: the freedom to be seen without filters, without fear, without permission.
Where algorithms suppress and social norms shrink the body into something to be corrected, the Alphabet turns it back into language and that language belongs to everyone. The work was born in Martinique, Pauline Faieff’s birthplace, over eight months and three solitary sessions: no artificial light, no make-up, no staging. What emerged is not the portrait of one woman, but a tool anyone can pick up, a way of looking at one’s own body with tenderness instead of judgement.
"My art encourages reconnection with oneself and breaking free from social stereotypes, to build a future of expression and liberation. We should never be afraid to be free."
The Twenty-Six Works
Each letter is a word, an image and a poem.
Acquire a single letter or spell your own.
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EDITIONS & PRINTS
Three sizes,
limited editions
20 × 25 cm
7.9 × 9.8 in · framed
EDITION OF 10
€450
70 × 90 cm
27.6 × 35.4 in · framed
EDITION OF 5
€1,800
100 × 130 cm
39.4 × 51.2 in · framed
EDITION OF 3
€3,500
Build your language
Collectors acquiring multiple letters to form a complete word receive a 15% discount on the entire set of works.
ARTIST
Pauline Faieff
Based between France and Italy, Pauline Faieff develops a body of work that is widely followed and presented in international exhibitions. For her, nudity is not merely an artistic medium: it is a manifesto.
Her commitment goes beyond making images to become a philosophy of life, a tool for social transformation, and a space of emancipation. Born in Martinique, she draws from her origins the material for a practice centred on the body, the gaze and freedom, a constant invitation to reclaim one’s own image. the Alphabet extends this enquiry: turning the body into a language anyone can claim, and that language into an act of reconciliation with oneself.
CURATOR
Annelise Stern
Working at the intersection of contemporary art, culture and new technologies, Annelise Stern has devoted her career to championing women artists, curating exhibitions that have presented more than one hundred of them.
A specialist in the female gaze and emerging technologies, she explores how these perspectives are transforming the production, distribution and reception of art. Her curation of the Alphabet places Pauline Faieff’s work within this reflection: a gaze that gives the body back its voice.