Orama Nigou. Image Supplied.

Orama Nigou is a visual research artist from French Polynesia. She studied for three years at the Centre des Métiers d’Art before going to France to pursue a textile design degree. Since she graduated in 2021, her artistic practice and research led her to collaborate with such institutions as the museum of Tahiti and the Islands and the Museum of Quai Branly Jacques Chirac. She took part in a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in 2023 and participated to the Nuit Européenne des Musées 2023 and Nuit Blanche Paris 2024. She also often take part in group exhibition in galleries.

Her work has a deep connection with her polynesian heritage and blooms by creating textile feathered objects that might be activated during installations or performances. Her practice questions thematics as memory and transmission, exploring notions as intimacy of the creative process, self-building and human transformation/metamorphosis.

Orama working with feathers in her studio. Image Supplied.

Orama’s residency is supported by the French Embassy, and Villa Antipode NOHO Residency Programme, as well as Massey University’s Toi Rauwhārangi School of Art and Wellington City Council.