about virginie hucher

A French artist with a degree in visual arts, Virginie Hucher trained in several influential workshops (Michel Gouéry, Bertrand Moulin, Bruno Lebel, Marc Alberghina). She has developed a predominantly abstract aesthetic in forms all her own. A skilled colorist, her work explores themes related to nature, the body, and living things through various media: acrylic, oil, and sculpture. These organic, vegetal, or mineral hybridizations allow the artist to focus on the essential, playing on the absence of scale to approach a microcosm within the macrocosm.

Like a chameleon adapting to its environment, Virginie Hucher's work blends into the fabric, within which the folds and creases of matter rustle. She listens to color, becomes bark or scale, working within noise to find her silence. For every entity is fundamentally driven by an energy that flows from body to body, without artificial boundaries between the mineral, vegetable, and animal realms, or between the visible and the invisible. Its minimalist and symbolic, even archaic, forms remind us that every origin is wild in the sense that it belongs to an older memory.

In a vocabulary whose alphabet we do not yet understand, Virginie Hucher presents a variation of abstract motifs that unfold serially like so many invocations to be reactivated. Each series branches out, like the splitting of a cell, into evocative titles whose poetry summons a knot of filial relationships. In this way, Virginie Hucher's work constantly gives birth to, unfolds, like Genesis, processes in formation.