Héloïse Chassepot’s work unfolds across painting, sculpture, and performance, forming a delicate yet deliberate exploration of form, emotion, and visual language. Her practice is rooted in a fascination with innocence—not as something naïve or regressive, but as a radical aesthetic position in a hyper-aware world. Through carefully constructed surfaces and symbolic imagery, she develops a vocabulary that draws from canonical art history as well as pop-cultural debris, where echoes of girlhood, spiritual kitsch, and romantic fragility converge.
Her paintings are often stitched, layered, and bathed in soft, eccentric palettes that create a shimmering friction between vulnerability and control. Sculptural elements—such as felted silk, glass, or printed fabric—introduce a corporeal logic that blurs the boundaries between presence and performance, object and gesture. These pieces do not seek resolution; instead, they suspend the viewer in an affective terrain where sincerity can be unsettling and beauty can carry a subtle violence. References to still life, domestic craft, and feminine aesthetics recur throughout her work, revealing a deep engagement with questions of representation, care, and emotional labor.
She completed her studies at Haute école d’art et de design, Geneva, University of
Geneva, Switzerland and holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London, and has exhibited internationally at institutions such as High Art, Paris (2024); Tara Downs, New York (2024, 2022); Pauline Perplexe, Paris (2023); and Centre d’Art de Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2021). Her work has been featured in Daisy Lazy (2024) and supported by the Gilbert Bayes Foundation.
Héloïse Chassepot lives and works in London.