Floating cells, 2024

Willy Chupa  

Artwork created with bleach on fabric, artwork sold framed: wooden strips fixed to a frame.

Willy Chupa is a French artist born in 1979. He lives and works in Gironde, in the southwest of France.
His artistic research revolves around the emergence of organic forms.
Through sculpture, painting and drawing, matter becomes a territory of experimentation where structures appear evoking the biological world: cells, germinations, membranes, expanding organisms or even organs of the body.
Biomorphism allows him to explore a space where the boundary between abstraction and figuration becomes porous. The eye can recognize forms of living things while remaining open to the imagination. At once familiar and enigmatic, these forms constitute the starting point for a personal visual language.
His work thus develops a form of biomorphic abstraction in which matter seems animated by internal dynamics: growth, proliferation, transformation, interconnection.
Each work can be perceived as a fragment of a larger organic cycle, revealing a nature that is both primitive and universal. Matter then becomes the site of a sensory experience of life.
It is, in a way, an imagined nature through its phases of germination, blossoming, maturity and decadence — a perpetual metamorphosis.
Through this approach, the artist explores our profound relationship with living things and the invisible forces that structure the organic world. Each work presents itself as a space for contemplation where intuition, biological memory, and the poetry of forms converge.
Willy Chupa has worked and exhibited in various countries. His works are part of private collections in France, Belgium, the United States, Australia, and the Philippines.