Virginie Ropars was born in Brittany (France) in 1976. She still lives and works
in the same place, surrounded by nature and the legends and superstitions that
have fed her mind since she was a child, building up visions that are sometimes
full of wonders, other times strange and gloomy, with the topic of feminity taking
up a prominent place: An inner world she primarily expressed in drawings at that
time.
After a Master’s degree in graphic art, she worked as a 2D/3D graphic artist
for computer games and the TV cartoon industry. From "virtuality" to "reality",
working with her hands became vital for her in order to be connected with what
she had in mind. Her works are in between sculpture, doll making, fashion design
and illustration. Different materials are used to build a kind of reality as
imagined in a dream. Her figures are predominantly strange women with an unbroken
mind, a vision of a human nature bent on reaching a bright absolute, and at the
same time capriciously rooted in dark ground.
Virginie's work is widely shown throughout Europe, at doll shows and exhibitions,
and also in United States and Russia.