The work of Pierre Antoine Vettorello focuses on using textile design and clothes as a foundation for narrative. He makes sculptural and statement silhouettes that represent militancy and poetry. Some are inspired by military technologies, ordinary materials, West African textiles and materials, and methods learned during tours and workshops. As a designer, he seeks to incorporate hand-made processes and discarded elements into the creation of clothes and forms in order to center them in his work. As a human being and a scholar, he is challenging our personal relationship with our sartorial past, as well as how we manufacture mythologies about 'designers' in Western nations, repeating colonial practices. He identifies how we view and get inspiration from the African continent, as well as how we interact with it.

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Vettorello received the ASVOF Diane Pernet award in 2010 and Arise Award in 2011.

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He is French-born & Ivorian, grew up in Bordeaux, now works and lives in Brussels (Belgium). He is a Ph.D. research fellow at the University of Antwerp and Sint Lucas Antwerp School of Arts.

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Latest Work

January - March 2022

Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

Vettorello is now working in situ and presenting his research at the Cité des Arts in the form of an exhibition titled "Black Yarns, Goutte d'Or."

https://www.citedesartsparis.net/en/exposition-fils-noirs-goutte-dor-pierre-antoine-vettorello

January - March 2021

AAIR - Artist in Residence, Antwerp

Vettorello conducted a research on decolonial perspectives in textile and fashion, working on revealing alternative narratives and genealogies comprised and hidden in the Western history of fashion.

https://www.aair.be/en/residenten/pierre-antoine-vettorello/

November 2019

Palais de Tokyo, Adelaïde Fériot - Avaler l'horizon, Paris

Collaboration with visual artist Adélaïde Fériot on a collection of hand-printed garments for performances.

 

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Education

2020

KdG Sint Lucas School of Arts, Antwerp

Advanced Masters in Artistic Research within a Social & Political Context.

2010

Academy of Fine Arts, Fashion dpt., Antwerp

Masters & Bachelor in Fashion Design.

2005

ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres, Paris

Certification in Textile Design.

 

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Teaching

Since January 2022

Istituto Marangoni Paris

Student dissertation supervisor, tutor of Design Thinking and Neo-craftmanship courses.

(English spoken)

Since 2015

Oxbridge Academic Programs, Paris

Teacher of fashion design, history of fashion and fashion criticism to grades 9-12 major and minor programs. Focus on Parisian Fashion.

(English spoken)

Spring 2021

Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels

Teacher of fashion and textile design applications, project monitoring at the Executive Masters in Knitting Design program.

(French spoken)

 

April 2021

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Publication

A conversation with Diana Bamimeke and Rima Hamid - Black Pride Ireland

Vettorello, Pierre Antoine (2021) A conversation with Diana Bamimeke and Rima Hamid, Advanced Master of Research in Art and Design, special issue of TYPP. Antwerp: Yellow Press, pp. 35-42.

https://www.adma.be/typp

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