Chelsea Nassib, gallery Director

Virginie Hucher’s work engages with Surrealism through restraint, rendering figuration not as spectacle but as meditation. Her paintings depict female figures in moments of suspended quiet—neither fully passive nor overtly assertive, but held in a kind of psychological tension. Birds, flowers, and references to classical statuary populate her compositions, yet they never feel ornamental. Instead, these motifs serve as entry points into a deeper exploration of what it means to embody both fragility and power. In Hucher’s world, softness is not weakness, but weight; beauty is not surface, but structure. Her figures—serene, unguarded, and composed—suggest a surrealism that is less about rupture than it is about refinement, offering stillness as a kind of radical interiority. Through this quiet surrealism, she reframes vulnerability as its own kind of force.