Fleur-Cyborg, Scissorhands - 155 cm x 120 cm, Oil, wax, resin and carbonised pigments on canvas, 2022 

View of "The Unknown Beginning of a Very Long Story" exhibition - Nicodim Gallery, February - March 2022, Bucharest 

Chloe Saï Breil-Dupont is a portrait artist. She uses oils to depict her friends, the people she lives with or has lived with in the past. Each work is the result of an intimate relationship, of long conversations. 

Exhibition at the Nicodim Gallery, February-March 2023, Los Angeles. 

A graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Biarritz and Annecy (2015), Chloe Saï Breil-Dupont went on to study philosophy at the University of São Paulo, also working as an assistant to several artists.
After three residencies, at Ateliers Wonder, Dune Pondichéry and Villa Belleville (late 2017), she moved to Carrara and then Berlin. She currently lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City. 

200 cm x 170 cm, Oil, wax, resin and calcinated pigments on canvas, 2022-2023. 

Attached to the singularity of oil painting, Chloe Saï Breil-Dupont's work questions the destiny of images and the worlds they contain. 

A door, Portrait de Lili - 190 cm x 140 cm, Oil, wax, resin and calcinated pigments on canvas, 2022-2023. 

A river, portrait of Soo - Oil, wax, resin and calcinated pigments on canvas, 190 cm x 140 cm, 2022. 

The artist builds up her own database, like an atlas of memories and people she knows, and extracts images from it that she paints on small wooden "cassettes". 

190 cm x 140 cm, Oil, wax, resin and calcinated pigments on canvas, 2022-2023. 

Chloe Saï Breil-Dupont appropriates the codes and techniques of a classical and decategorised history of art. She revisits Flemish art and the painters of the Italian Renaissance, creating temporal shifts between the past and the present. 

Fleur-Cyborg 2, 140 cm x 120 cm, Oil, wax, resin and calcinated pigments on canvas, 2021. 

La soleil, portrait de Cassie, 190 cm x 140 cm, Oil, wax, resin and calcinated pigments on canvas, 2021. 

The artist explores what is suppressed or hidden, from forbidden cultures to ancient times. 

50 cm x 70 cm, Oil, wax, resin and carbonised pigments on canvas, 2021. 

The hands of the people she portrays clasp small blocks of images against their busts, which the artist calls cassettes. 

Colbalt Mystique, portrait de Yann - 190 cm x 140 cm, Oil on canvas, 2021. 

Fleur Cyborg - 30 cm x 30 cm, Oil, wax, resin and carbonised pigments on canvas, 2021. 

Chloe Saï Breil-Dupont takes time to paint the bodies of her loved ones. Using oils and glazes, she is able to "add something precious" to their skin, and something sacred to their faces and eyes. 

Oil, wax, resin and calcinated pigments on canvas, 220 cm x 180 cm, 2022. 

The cassettes are freeze-frames of films, paintings and events. Somewhere between an ex-voto and an Instagram image, they constitute a memory that is partially shared.

The gesture is unsettling. It retains a form of intimacy as much as it reveals extracts of it. The same gesture, that of holding one's hands against oneself, expresses a modesty, a desire to tell something about oneself, about the other. The cassettes bring out what is buried inside us, the ghosts, the invisible things, the things that are difficult for us to say, and perhaps easier to represent. 

Vesuvio, portrait of Nicolas - Oil, wax, resin and calcinated pigments on canvas, 190 cm x 140 cm, 2022. 

A turning point - Oil on canvas, 120 cm x 100 cm, 2022. 

Chloe Saï Breil-Dupont's portraits are part of a history that is as ancestral as it is contemporary - the black paste - in which the artist delves with great delicacy into body-memories.