Virginie Loze

Having created large-format pieces using graphic techniques sometimes associated with video projections or materials, Virginie Loze now paints on canvas and develops site-specific pieces for public and private spaces. She engenders imagery inhabited by hybrid figures, strange characters caught in comical situations, revealing threats that challenge individuals in every aspect of their being. These creatures pop up with caustic humor in an offbeat proliferation of fragmented stories that provide a symbolic armature for social preoccupations.

Virginie Loze’s painting is a dream, an hallucination, a release mechanism in pictures. Driving her work is the desire to see her unconscious emerge from the formal crucible where her creative thinking develops. Illustrators such as Reiser inspired her early work, and she admires creators such as Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Uwe Henneken, Jessica Stockholder, Edvard Munch, Salvador Dalí, Raymond Petitbon and Jim Shaw.

In partnership with les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse