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About the artist
Victoire Inchauspé graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2022, the same year she was named the youngest ever fnalist for the Prix SAM pour l’Art contemporain with the Palais de Tokyo. In 2021, she won the Prix Sarr (an American-French prize) and the Prix Paris Photo in 2020. She has exhibited her work extensively in France, London and New York. In 2023, Victoire Inchauspé spent 6 months in one of the major residencies in the United States, Residency Unlimited (New York). In 2024, she take part in the 17th edition of the Biennale de Lyon, curated by Alexia Fabre.
Victoire Inchauspé grew up in a small village in the Basque Country. It was there, thanks to her mother, an art teacher, that she began to experience art. She introduced her to “bricolage” with natural elements found on walks. Deer, spiders, bees, bats, mimosas, thistles and sunfowers create imaginary worlds and narrative landscapes that evoke bygone seasons. She incorporates their bodies, or parts of them, into her pieces, bringing into play a subtle tension between absence and presence, ephemerality and eternity, strength and fragility. In her work, everything is ultimately a question of cycle: birth, climax, old age, death and rebirth. Refecting on a poetic commonality, his work evokes states as personal as they are universal, such as vulnerability, the ordeal of absence, resilience and hope.