Capriccio

Eva Jospin is a French artist whose work explores interior landscapes, imagined forests, and vegetal architectures. Trained at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, she has since the 2000s developed a singular practice centred on sculpture and installation, in which corrugated cardboard — a humble, industrial material — becomes the raw material for monumental forests of vertiginous intricacy. These works, evoking cabinets of curiosities, conjure the romantic grotto, the nineteenth-century panorama, and the theatre of nature. In recent years, Jospin has extended her material vocabulary to include embroidery, as seen in Capriccio (2023). In this piece, cotton and linen threads are worked on a silk ground to compose a dense, silent vegetal setting. The work extends her constant obsessions — the forest as mental space, detail as vertigo, nature as fiction — while probing the boundaries between textile art and sculpture, between craft and artwork. Shown in major international institutions, from Art Basel to European museums, Eva Jospin is today one of the most singular voices of the contemporary French art scene.