Juliette Leperlier – Lightly

Illustration : Juliette Leperlier, Naiade XXV, glass paste and photo printing, 2024 (collection of the Charleroi Glass Museum / photo by Arthur Monfrais)

13/11/26 > 11/04/27

Pâte de verre occupies a distinctive place in Juliette Leperlier’s artistic journey. Fascinated by the processes through which matter is transformed, she did not immediately turn to this demanding technique. Before making it her own, she chose to explore other artistic horizons and experiment with different materials, gradually developing a personal visual language in which matter, light and image play an essential role.

She began her artistic studies in Paris, completing a DMA in synthetic materials at ENSAAMA (Olivier de Serres). She then pursued her studies in Visual Arts at the Sorbonne, where she developed a personal practice combining glass sculpture and photography. In 2010, she obtained her Master’s degree and continued her artistic research, already centred on the exploration of transparency, light and the interactions between volume and image.

From 2014 onwards, she devoted herself fully to her artistic practice and began exhibiting in various European galleries. In 2018 and 2019, three solo exhibitions were dedicated to her work in Asia. Her works are now held in several museum collections, including MusVerre in Sars-Poteries, the Liuli China Museum and the Musée du Verre de Charleroi, as well as in private foundations such as the Glass Art Fund and the Madreema Foundation. She is one of the permanent artists represented by Galerie Lechaczynski in Biot and Galerie Capazza in Nançay, which dedicated a solo exhibition to her work in 2022.

Her work is rooted in an ongoing exploration of light, transparency and texture. Through pâte de verre, Juliette Leperlier creates sensitive, organic works in which matter itself becomes a language. Playing with solid and void, opacity and transparency, she explores both the depth of glass and its relationship with light. Her artistic approach, enriched by the dialogue between sculpture and photography, reveals the many possibilities of a material whose perception she continually questions.