From her beginnings in the mid-1990s, Alexandra Duprez has developed an intuitive approach to drawing and painting, drawing her inspiration from outsider art and folk art. In her images, she conjures up a phantasmagorical world akin to a dream, populated by troubling creatures, entangled shapes, and multiplied eyes, somewhere between figuration and abstraction. At the center of his work is the human body, a body that splits, erases, and transforms itself, to become a being in constant mutation, half-animal, half-plant. By adding and covering, layer after layer, the artist creates what she calls "shreds of images", fragments of a constantly reinvented story with teeming ramifications. The eye wanders, as if into a metaphorical forest born of the artist's unconscious. Her recurring motifs open up a path towards the disquieting strangeness of her inner theatre.
Born in 1974 in Quimper, Alexandra Duprez has lived and worked in Douarnenez for many years. Since 1995, she has devoted her time to painting. She is represented by COA gallery in Canada, HAGD gallery in Denmark, DYS gallery in Belgium, Pulp gallery and Tayloe Piggott gallery in the USA, Moving gallery in Holland. In 2015, she helped set up the Plein-Jour gallery in Douarnenez, which she has been co-directing ever since. She also works with publishing houses such as Esperluète in Belgium and Chose Commune in France.