Fi Isidore is an artist and woodworker from New York City. With a background in traditional furniture making and choreography, Isidore’s art objects draw on a rich trove of references and traditions, from corsetry and Shaker joinery to Graham dance technique and club culture. She approaches woodworking as an act of ‘costuming,’ assembling outfits of bone and lace, raw denim and strands of her friends’ hair. The works are adorned with meticulously labored surfaces rendered through historical craft techniques such as marquetry, inlay, relief carving, and upholstery. Craft is (mis)used as a means of staging and styling — teasing out a theatrics and performative quality from within the sculptural forms. Design becomes a means of dressing and undressing space that is rooted in a vividly sensual materiality. Existing somewhere between furniture, backstages, and garment archives, Isidore’s works invoke the spaces and feelings that exist in and around performance.

Fi Isidore is an artist and woodworker from New York City. With a background in traditional furniture making and choreography, Isidore’s art objects draw on a rich trove of references and traditions, from corsetry and Shaker joinery to Graham dance technique and club culture. She approaches woodworking as an act of ‘costuming,’ assembling outfits of bone and lace, raw denim and strands of her friends’ hair. The works are adorned with meticulously labored surfaces rendered through historical craft techniques such as marquetry, inlay, relief carving, and upholstery. Craft is (mis)used as a means of staging and styling — teasing out a theatrics and performative quality from within the sculptural forms. Design becomes a means of dressing and undressing space that is rooted in a vividly sensual materiality. Existing somewhere between furniture, backstages, and garment archives, Isidore’s works invoke the spaces and feelings that exist in and around performance.