Virginie Hucher is a French artist born in Paris. She lives and works in the north of France. In 2023, she designed and built her own studio using self-build and eco-construction methods. Set beside a fifteenth-century church and bordered by a forest of varied tree species, this place of creation echoes the foundations of her practice: a sensitive trilogy of architecture, nature and the sacred. Here she develops a multidisciplinary practice encompassing painting, sculpture, drawing and performance, conceived as a sensitive interstice between the human body, nature and cosmo-telluric forces. Drawing on her early training in dance, Virginie Hucher began working in situ with ephemeral performances titled Supports vivants (“Living Supports”). Directly on earth, sand or snow, she traces organic imprints at the scale of the landscape, capturing the raw energy of the place. This bodily and choreographic vocabulary is then transposed to the studio, where it becomes the matrix for her canvases, worked with a natural palette, and for her volumes in raw earth, earthenware or wood. On the threshold between abstraction and figuration, her plastic research revolves around “biomorphs”: large, massive and vibrating forms in perpetual becoming, which embody the living. For more than a decade, the artist has explored the paradigm of fertility and birth, and her current research extends and enriches this quest. Far from abandoning these founding themes, her recent work gives them a deeply sacred dimension, in which birth becomes the engine of permanent metamorphosis. Nourished by Taoist thought and its principles of harmony, her research unfolds through interplays of voids, ascending movements and twin forms. These hybrid figures, evocative of animist cults, embody a profound reflection on otherness and transition. Her paintings and sculptures are thus conceived as talismans, poetic guardians of a fragile balance, inviting a contemplative and ritual experience of our relationship to the world. Madeleine Filippi, Curator and Art Critic