Ophelia Jacarini
Visual artist
Ophelia Jacarini is a French artist born in 1991 whose practice sits at the intersection of body, matter and memory. Initially trained in classical ballet, she encountered the work of Maurice Béjart at a very young age — a formative experience that revealed to her the power of movement as much 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 art at the Beaux-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 forms that are often tactile and material, she seeks to make perceptible what remains after the action: an imprint, a memory, a displacement.
Since 2017 she has pursued an ongoing artistic enquiry that has led to gallery and institutional exhibitions in France and internationally, including at the CICA Museum and Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town. Working between Paris and Hong Kong, she situates her practice within a circulation of contexts and perspectives, shaping a body of work attentive to passages, thresholds and forms of presence.
