Ophelia Jacarini is a French artist born in 1991, whose practice lies at the intersection of body, matter, and memory. Initially trained in classical dance, she experienced the formative work of Maurice Béjart at a very young age, which revealed to her the power of movement as well as the trace of its disappearance. This relationship between presence and erasure remains at the heart of her artistic research.
After studying fashion design and then fine arts, she developed a multidisciplinary practice combining sculpture, painting, photography, and installation. Her work explores how bodies, gestures, and objects carry latent narratives, questioning notions of transformation, identity, and temporality. Through often sensitive and material forms, she seeks to make perceptible what remains after an action: an imprint, a memory, a displacement.
Since 2017, she has been conducting continuous artistic research that has led to gallery and institutional exhibitions, both in France and internationally, notably at the CICA Museum and the Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town. Based between Paris and Hong Kong, she situates her practice within a circulation of contexts and perspectives, fostering work that is attentive to passages, thresholds, and forms of presence.
