Jumping into the sea while becoming liquid

Chloe Saï Breil-Dupont

BornNationalityBased In
1990N/ABerlin
Biography

The mysterious portraiture of Chloë Saï Breil-Dupont comprises the interpersonal interactions with her sitters that disclose the multidimensionality of being. In her practice, Breil-Dupont focuses on the core ideas of time, questioning its linearity and logic. Her sitters are mostly her friends who, through the process of posing, become multifaceted individuals whose personal history shifts inspired by the dialogues and anecdotes of one another. She explains: “We do not exist in the same way with another person, and then with another, or yet another.” Her work investigates the human condition and explores the effects interactions have on our identities, navigating through the versatility of time. Breil-Dupont seizes certain stylistic features specific to Flemish and Renaissance portraiture to convey a pictorial language wholly new and radical. In her portraits, she examines identity through a distortion lens, rendering her sitters to serve more than mere character resemblance —a new kind of representation where everything happens at once. By looking into notions of existentialism, her paintings rather compose a sensitive archive of the experiences that seem to encompass everything her sitters, and by extension we, go through as human beings. ...

Selected Artworks
Jumping into the sea while becoming liquid
Chloe Saï Breil-Dupont
Jumping into the sea while becoming liquid, 2022
222 x 182cm
Summer lava
Vesuvio, portrait of Nicolas
Chloe Saï Breil-Dupont
Vesuvio, portrait of Nicolas, 2022
192 x 142cm
We sex-chatted on instagram and then I went to a club
Chloe Saï Breil-Dupont
We sex-chatted on instagram and then I went to a club, 2022
49 x 42cm
Commune Cyborg, Portrait de Rebecca
Chloe Saï Breil-Dupont
Commune Cyborg, Portrait de Rebecca, 2020
190 x 140cm
Your outside is my inside
Chloe Saï Breil-Dupont
Your outside is my inside, 2022
122 x 162cm
Gallery Representation
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