Alice Pegna is a French artist who creates amazing minimalist spaghetti structures. Her project Ex Nihilo features geometric dresses, jewelry, and headpieces made from raw spaghetti pieces.
“Spaghetti is basically reserved for cooking, and in the collective imagery it appears fragile, these two reasons pushed me to want to use it,” she wrote on her website. “On the other hand I like its features: wired, it has certain flexibility due to its finesse while remaining rigid and easily split.”
Pegna starts the project’s concept by looking at the structure as well as the empty space shown to her. She mounts the uncooked spaghetti in a structure to make a solid foundation then fixes them to create polygons that show the architectural details.
Each design is intended to add accent to the human body, changing the way we see it by concealing it as little as possible. “I chose to limit the sources of transformations of his perception by working only on mannequins painted in black, on a plain black background.” Pegna wanted to create a sense of emotion through the effects of light and smoke while giving emphasis on her unique art pieces.
