Virginie Bécourt
The freedom of a sensitive practice allowing oneself to be inspired and carried by material and emotion is fundamental to Virginie Bécourt’s work. This close, physical engagement with matter becomes a moment of intimacy, an organic encounter. Nature is an essential resource for her, enabling her to embrace her sensitivity. Her universe continually returns to the living world, to plant life, without ever seeking to imitate it. Folds and stitches form a simple process which, when combined with the material, creates a richer and more complex visual language. Virginie welcomes accident, fragility, and the strength of the textile she uses. She is drawn to the idea of creating a microcosm in which…


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The folds have become like writing for her and her hands are the seismograph of her emotions.
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H 144.0 x W 30.0 x D 15.0 cm
Born from a constraint I imposed upon myself: to use old or secondhand raw materials and create with the available quantity.
The sculpture emerged from a tumult of emotions revealed in the frayed folds.
€ 2.800
H 39.5 x W 85.0 x D 5.0 cm
The porosity of emotions.
“Doubt may be slower, but it is just as fluid as water;
it finds unsuspected cracks and forgotten crevices in the wall of consciousness.”€ 3.000
H 14.0 x W 94.0 x D 14.0 cm
I like the idea of creating a microcosm in which one can wander and get lost…
€ 2.400
H 24.0 x W 17.0 x D 3.5 cm
The central theme, ‘Hearts’, defends the idea that we share a ‘heart’ for life, but that it is marked and nourished by particular, personal and intimate emotions.
Each sculpture is unique and different, and carries an expression embodied by the word “heart.”€ 500
H 58.0 x W 58.0 x D 5.0 cm
Inspired by a song about hypersensitivity (Izia Higelin, “Trop vite”)
The wave as a rise of emotions.
Being overwhelmed and taming one’s sensitivity as a source of creation.€ 2.300
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