Virginie Bocaert

Born in France – Living and working in Montréal since 2002.
Already passionate about painting when she was very  young, Virginie Bocaert chose to study  fashion at École Supérieure de Mode de Paris.
She graduated with distinction and started working in design but she could not resist the lure of painting.
Her initial steps  in the art world began with representations of the female body emerging from the canvas  in an improbable, abstract  atmosphere. In her oeuvre, in fact, nonfiguration  is not opposed to the figurative but is simply another manifestation, that of  the inner gaze, just as mental and physical are not opposites, they just are. The latest development in her work has taken her toward new mediums such as photography, performance and the wide range of  digital elements that technology is now putting into hands of the artist…