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Everything is a sign in Alexandra Duprez’s work. Her enigmatic pieces are wondrous tales—dreamed, crafted, and at times collaged—where fragments of life dissolve into abstraction.

Alexandra Duprez’s work overflows—off the canvas, across book covers she envelops, onto repurposed cardboard, and beyond what we can grasp of her practice.

Her body of work is diverse, yet held together by a secret, almost silent thread. Within a universe unlike any other, she weaves a wondrous world where dogs, horses, and snakes coexist with humans. Deconstructed and in flux—represented through legs, hands, or eyes—these beings emerge as impenetrable points of consciousness.

This first monograph brings together over a hundred works, carefully selected from a prolific body of art. The book opens with a text by Sophie Kaplan, director of La Criée Contemporary Art Center (Rennes), and is punctuated by a conversation between Alexandra Duprez and Cécile Poimbœuf-Koizumi (Chose Commune), accompanied by studio photographs taken in Douarnenez.

Alexandra Duprez (born in 1974 in Quimper) has lived and worked in Douarnenez. At the age of 16, Alexandra Duprez travelled to Australia. It was in this faraway land that she met Robin Hundt, a woman with a passion for popular art, who welcomed her into her home, whose walls were covered with canvases. It was a defining moment. From then on, Alexandra Duprez devoted herself to painting. On her return she enrolled at the Beaux-Arts in Quimper. She settled in Douarnenez, where she has lived and worked ever since. She is represented (selection) by COA gallery in Canada, HAGD gallery in Denmark, DYS gallery and Nq Galerie in Belgium, Pulp gallery in the USA, Moving gallery in Holland, Albrecht gallery in Germany and Galerie Philippe Valentin, in France. In 2015, she took part in the creation of the Plein-Jour gallery, which she has since co-directed.

First edition
Editing and sequencing: Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi
Design: Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi, in collaboration with Perrine Serre
Text: A conversation between Alexandra Duprez and Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi as well as an essay by Sophie Kaplan
160 pages
87 colour plates
20 x 26 cm
French / English
Publication date: October 2025
ISBN: 979-10-96383-55-9