Atelier
Founded by Nour Zeini, the practice explores the relationship between body, material, and memory through contemporary jewellery and sculptural forms. Each piece is shaped through a process of experimentation and craftsmanship, where metal, structure, and texture become a language for exploring transformation, belonging, and the traces carried by the body. Moving between adornment and sculpture, Nour Zeini creates wearable objects that exist as a second skin — intimate forms that hold stories, memories, and moments of connection.
Biography
Nour Zeini is a Lebanese contemporary jewelry designer and multidisciplinary artist. Her practice explores the intersection of body, material, and memory through jewelry, sculpture, and installation. Drawing from themes of identity, belonging, and displacement, she creates works that examine the traces people carry and the stories embedded within materials. She holds an MFA in Contemporary Jewellery Design from Alchimia in Florence and a BFA from the Lebanese American University in Beirut.
Exhibitions & Press
Exhibition
Tethys Gallery · Florence, Italy
Born out of a period of profound instability, Soil (تراب) —presented as Nour Zeini's MFA thesis exhibition at Alchimia Contemporary Jewelery School—is an artistic declaration of resilience, identity, and ground. Conceived as a personal act of rebellion, the exhibition unites photography, video installations, and wearable jewelry to explore how adornment and memory act as enduring anchors against chaos.
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Press
Florence, Italy · March 2025
Featured in Khamsa Magazine : An exploration of diaspora, memory, and metal. Read the full article below.
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Film
Piccadilly Theatre · Beirut, Lebanon
Filmed in Beirut's abandoned Piccadilly Theatre, hand-built metal scalemail encases the body to translate architectural ruin into wearable form—redefining armor as resilience, feminine power, and rebirth.
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Film
Beirut, Lebanon
Filmed inside Beirut's historic Pink House, this installation emerged from a dynamic dialogue between light, sound, and space. Handcrafted entirely from zinc, each 2 cm fragment was individually drilled, cut, and reassembled to form a continuous 2 × 150 m metal surface. Drawing inspiration from Penelope's endless weaving in The Odyssey , the piece reinterprets meticulous repetition as a quiet act of resistance, persistence, and reclamation.
Performance
Rumman Tripoli · Tripoli, Lebanon · December 2025
A chainmail garment worn by an opera singer during a live performance, connecting Nour Zeini's jewellery practice to voice, ritual, and the stage.
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Performance
Jerash Festival · Jordan · August 2025
Inspired by childhood wonder and the fluid magic of light, the Iridessa collection made its stage debut worn by Vanessa El Alia during her performance at the Jerash Festival in Jordan (2025).
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