Edith Basseville

Édith Basseville is a French artist born in Burgundy in 1977. Her work is part of a sensitive exploration of our relationship with the living. Nourished by a dual culture of life sciences and visual arts, she develops a transversal practice combining drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and installation. Her poetic and experimental approach questions the interactions between humans and their environment through plays of balance, fragility, and movement, characteristic of the organic world.

Her work is constructed around the line—whether traced, engraved, drawn in space, or printed—as a vector for a dialogue between abstraction and representation. She subverts traditional printmaking, drawing, and handwriting techniques, creating visual networks where assemblage, repetition, fragmentation, and transposition play a central role. She also explores the relationships between plane and volume, moving from drawing to wireframe sculpture, from engraved wood to immersive installation, establishing a porosity between dimensions.

For several years, Édith Basseville has incorporated a reflection on the economy of means and the recovery of materials into her process. Used cardboard, recycled wood, offcuts from matrices, drawings, and prints become the constituent elements of new compositions. This circular approach, both aesthetic and committed, gives rise to works that carry within them a memory of gesture and place.

Her work has been presented in various museums, galleries, and fairs in France and internationally (Art Élysées, Paris Print Fair, Berlin Art Week, etc.). She collaborates with the dHD and Sagot Le Garrec galleries in Paris. Her works are part of numerous private collections in Europe and North America, as well as the public collection of the Artothèque de Ploumagoar.