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Oil on Paper
48.8 in x 51.1 in
124cm x 130 cm
2023
From her beginnings in the mid-90s, Alexandra Duprez has developed an intuitive approach to drawing and painting, inspired by outsider art (art brut) and folk art. Her images conjure up a phantasmagorical, dreamlike world, populated by unsettling creatures, entangled shapes and multiplied eyes, somewhere between figuration and abstraction.
By adding and covering, layer after layer, the artist creates what she calls “shreds of images,” fragments of a story that is constantly being reinvented, with many ramifications. The eye wanders, as if into a metaphorical forest born of the artist’s unconscious. Her recurring motifs lead the way into the disquieting strangeness of her inner theatre.
Born in 1974 in Quimper, Alexandra Duprez has lived and worked in Douarnenez for many years. She has devoted her time to painting since 1995.
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Alexandra Duprez
Alexandra Duprez (b. 1974, Quimper, France) is a contemporary painter living and working in Douarnenez, Brittany. Through layered washes, fragmented forms, and muted symbols, Duprez explores memory, disappearance, and the persistence of images. Her paintings evoke interior landscapes where faces, plants, and traces of nature emerge slowly, suspended between dream and recollection.