Eva Jospin Lecture

What kind of walk is Eva Jospin taking us on?

My forest is all about the mind. It is not figurative. It reflects human concerns: the idea of losing or rediscovering ourselves, our relationship to the fairy tales of childhood, such as Bambi or Hansel and Gretel, to archaic fears. My forests offer the perfect mental escape".

Eva Jospin was born in 1975 and graduated from the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. She is a winner of the Prix de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Paris and was a resident at the Villa Medici in 2017. She exhibits regularly in France and around the world, composing forest and architectural landscapes, which she develops in various media. Her art frequently engages in dialogue with the exhibition venues where they are hosted, creating a shared experience that blends memory, material and imagination, with materials that are sometimes valued, sometimes disparaged.

She has also unveiled several monumental and immersive installations, including in the Louvre’s Cour Carrée (Panorama, 2016) and at the Abbey of Montmajour (Cénotaphe, 2020). She created a series of embroidered panels for the Maison Dior haute couture catwalk show in 2021 (The Silk Room) as well as monumental sets for the Spring-Summer 2023 prêt-à-porter show (Nymphées, 2022).

Eva Jospin also creates permanent works, such as the "Folie" installation at the Chaumont-sur-Loire estate in 2015, "La Traversée" at Beaupassage in Paris in 2018 and "Le Passage" in Nantes in 2019.

In 2022, she unveiled "Microclima", a new permanent installation conceived as a winter garden inside the Max Mara store on Piazza del Liberty in Milan.