Virginie Loze

Born in 1964 in Toulouse (France), she lives in Caraman (France). 

With her drawings, Virginie Loze creates a world peopled by hybrid figures, strange characters caught in borderline situations. These substitute individuals, with their sad, passive or angry expressions, exist squarely in an intangible zone between reality and fiction, as if caught in a vertigo of contradictory forces issuing from the friction between the real and the imaginary. Playing with the constraints of caricature and the cartoon strip, somewhat in the manner of Crumb or Alain Séchas, Loze's drawing is incisive and abrasive. Anticipating, some ten years ahead of time, the current fashion for "mental drawing", Loze's demanding, uncompromising oeuvre ultimately remains private, as if crouched in the shadows, waiting.

Recently, Loze's work has undergone a potentially stunning development with her adoption of video techniques alongside her drawing. Loze exhibited a new series of works, placed somewhere between darkness and light, at the Espace Croix Baragnon.