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Delphine Pouillé
May 27th, 2025
oneATELIER is pleased to announce our next studio visit — this time with French artist Delphine Pouillé, taking place in her studio in the 14th arrondissement of Paris on May 27th, 2025.
Often working through contrasts and contradictions, Delphine Pouillé’s practice merges sculpture and drawing into a hybrid form. Her works are deeply attuned to the surrounding spaces in which they are installed, unfolding in close dialogue with their environments.
Her fragile sculptures — soft textile forms inflated with expanding foam — have gradually led her to develop unique processes of care and repair, drawing from both medical treatment and architectural restoration. She mends damaged elements by patching them with fabric squares pinned onto the solidified foam or sealing cracks with coating materials, allowing her works to remain in a state of continuous transformation.
Pouillé constantly explores and challenges the limits of her materials, embracing unpredictable flows, accidental eruptions, and spontaneous outgrowths — or working deliberately against the grain of their natural behaviour.
Over time, she has incorporated new materials such as wood, metal, copper, and concrete, and introduced architectural and urban structures into her work — including gym equipment — whose functions and meanings she subverts and reimagines.
More recently, her research has turned to the iconography of prehistoric and Iberian art. Inspired by the schematic nature of ancient forms, she fuses them into her own practice through a deliberate flattening and reduction of volume and matter.
During the visit, we will have the chance to discuss Delphine Pouillé’s recent in-situ creations in Brussels and new works prepared for an upcoming exhibition in Taipei Fine Arts Museum— with a particular focus on materiality, fragility, resilience, and the creative challenges embedded in her process.
Delphine Pouillé was born in 1979 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. She currently lives and works in Paris.
Following her studies at the Fine Art School of Rennes, and at the universities of Saint-Etienne, Rennes, and Paris, she has developed a practice centred on the living and the body, questioning its forms, representations, and place in space and society.
Her work has been widely exhibited in France and internationally, notably in Paris (Christian Aubert – collector, Polaris Gallery, Xpo Studio, Next Level Gallery, La Ferronnerie Gallery), as well as in numerous European cities, including Luxembourg (MUDAM – Museum of Modern Art, Casino Luxembourg), Brussels (Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation residency, PARTcours, B-Gallery), Liège (RAVI, Art au Centre), Budapest (Chimera Project), Vienna (Basement, Parallel Vienna), and Madrid (Cruce Gallery, Casa de Velázquez).
She has also shown her work several times in Taiwan (MOCA Taipei – Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei Artist Village, Taoyuan Arts Center), as well as in South Korea (Incheon Art Platform), and will soon take on a residency in the Akiyoshidai International Artists Village in Japan.
From September 2022 to July 2023, she was an artist-member of the French Academy (Casa de Velázquez ) in Madrid (Spain), and her piece Pull Up received the Grand Prize at the 2023 Taoyuan International Art Award, organised by TMoFA – Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan.