Eva Jospin
'Into the Woods'
In her debut U.S. museum exhibition, Eva Jospin demonstrates her creative magnitude and the unique nuance of her singular practice. The range of Jospin’s expression fascinates viewers with otherworldly appeal, from the sculpted forests and architectural follies she meticulously carves in cardboard to her richly embroidered landscape tapestries and her most intricate and delicate renderings. The artist’s power is as equally evident in her intimately detailed works as it is in her monumental immersive installations that envelop audiences in their timeless presence and inspire a deep sense of wonder. Whether drawing from Renaissance forebearers or the fantastical worlds of fairy tales, Jospin’s artworks collectively embrace the captivating mysteries of nature and ruins alike with intensive particularity and craftsmanship, encouraging us to contemplate contemporary materials and our place in history too. Together, we experience the whimsy and enchantment of these eternal conversations, with complete certainty of our central role in it all.
In her debut U.S. museum exhibition, Eva Jospin demonstrates her creative magnitude and the unique nuance of her singular practice. The range of Jospin’s expression fascinates viewers with otherworldly appeal, from the sculpted forests and architectural follies she meticulously carves in cardboard to her richly embroidered landscape tapestries and her most intricate and delicate renderings. The artist’s power is as equally evident in her intimately detailed works as it is in her monumental immersive installations that envelop audiences in their timeless presence and inspire a deep sense of wonder. Whether drawing from Renaissance forebearers or the fantastical worlds of fairy tales, Jospin’s artworks collectively embrace the captivating mysteries of nature and ruins alike with intensive particularity and craftsmanship, encouraging us to contemplate contemporary materials and our place in history too. Together, we experience the whimsy and enchantment of these eternal conversations, with complete certainty of our central role in it all.
About the artist
Eva Jospin (b. 1975, Paris), a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, has been composing her signature sculpted forest and architectural landscapes in various media for the past 15 years. Winner of the Prix de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2015 and resident at the Villa Medici in Rome in 2017, she has presented numerous exhibitions of international importance, notably at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; the Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy; the Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, Germany; the Hayward Gallery, London; the Het Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, the Netherlands; and the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris.
Jospin has also unveiled several monumental and immersive installations throughout France as part of specific commissions, including for the Cour Carrée du Louvre, Paris; the Abbey of Montmajour, Arles; the Palais des Papes, Avignon; and the Château de Versailles. She has also been commissioned by Dior to design runway sets for the brand’s Haute Couture 2021–22 and Spring/Summer 2023 shows. Jospin’s permanent works include the installation Folie at the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, inaugurated in 2015; La Traversée at Beaupassage, Paris, in 2018; and Le Passage in Nantes in 2019. In 2022, Jospin debuted the permanent installation Microclima in the Max Mara shop at Piazza del Liberty in Milan. Throughout 2023, more than 20 works by Jospin were presented at contemporary art fairs around the world as the Carte Blanche artist of the house Ruinart.
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Into the Woods is organized by SCAD Museum of Art chief curator Daniel S. Palmer and presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2026.
