Ballade en forêt et le loup Painting

Virginie Munch paints the unspeakable. Her canvases emerge from an instinctive impulse, a vital need to give form to what escapes words. Through light, color, and material, she seeks to capture traces of passage, inner resonances, and buried fragments of memory. Her work explores the territories of introspection, memory, and human emotion, with a pronounced sensitivity to abstraction. Her compositions often appear suspended, as if the forms were dissolving into the space around them. Influenced by the urban energy of graffiti as much as by motifs drawn from so‑called “primitive” arts, she creates worlds where signs, imprints, and textures converse freely. The search for contrast lies at the heart of her approach. Her palette shifts between warm and cool tones, guided by the emotional state of the moment. The incisions and engravings that traverse her works bring depth, vibration, and movement—like luminous scars revealing what surfaces and what remains hidden. At the crossroads of abstract expressionism, singular art, and outsider art, Virginie Munch builds a body of work freed from academic conventions. Her paintings, born from an ever‑evolving imagination, establish a dialogue between intuition and representation, between the visible and the invisible, seeking above all to evoke a sensation, an emotion, an intimate resonance. Based in L’Entre‑Deux on Réunion Island and working periodically in Hyères in the south of France, she nourishes her practice through travel and openness to the world. Driven by a deep commitment to cultural diversity, she explores her inner landscapes through painting. Her works have entered private collections in fourteen countries across Europe, the Indian Ocean, and the United States.