Artist Biography
Adrian Pepe
Adrian Pepe is a Honduran fiber artist based in Lebanon. His artistic practice is an ongoing investigation on process and material. Through his work, he interweaves nature and culture to create objects as tools to enable an open discourse on materiality, our morphing cultural landscape, and present condition. Pepe’s work is rooted in textiles, spanning site-specific installations to durational performances. By directly engaging with the sentient providers of raw materials— whether plant or animal— Pepe forges relational ties that manifest in objects and events imbued with artistry, sweat, perspiration, mythology, and symbolism; transforming acts of making into speculative, embodied rituals that test and extend our understanding of material agency, ecological intimacy, and the poetics of labor.
Pepe won the SCAD Alumni Atelier Grant and the Fiber Arts Network: FELT Fiber Transformed Award. Solo and group exhibitions include Sharjah Architectural Triennial (2024), Beirut Concept at Dubai Design Week, UAE (2021); Entangled Matters at Agial Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon (2021); Harvest: Mushroom Explorations at Beirut Design Week, Lebanon (2016); Hair Explorations at Non-Fiction Gallery, Savannah, GA (2013); and Seoul Design Fair, South Korea (2010)
“Wool in the changing tones of the earth, from ocher to chestnut, in addition to celebrating ancestral know-how, to creating an intimate relationship with the earth, is a blank page where symbolism, myths and emotions come to life. ” – Adrian Pepe