Pierre-Antoinne Vettorello

Pierre-Antoine Vettorello is a transdisciplinary Afro-European researcher-artist at the Antwerp Research www.yidankarelli.com for the Arts (ARIA). His PhD project spanning from 2021 until 2026 is entitled “Black Yarns: Fashioning Senegalese Women’s Resistance in the Diaspora (1939-1966),” in which his practice-based artistic research highlights the resistance of black women through clothing. His work combines writing, sculpture, crafting, and focuses on exploring how dressed bodies navigate between colonised and coloniser spaces in colonial and postcolonial Paris. 

Pierre-Antoine owns a Masters in Arts from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, and a Masters in Artistic Research from Sint Lucas Antwerpen. He participated in residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and Villa Ndar in Saint-Louis. Additionally, he edits the bilingual zine The Yarn deconstructing colonial violence in fashion education and museology. He is also part of the inter-university research group on the transmission of craftsmanship in Flanders, “Crafting Futures”.