Born in France in 1963, Valérie Feminon is a visual artist and sculptor whose career bridges the gap between pure artistic creation and architecture. A graduate of the prestigious École Boulle in Paris (Applied Arts) and trained at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Limoges, she developed a dual vision early on, guided by a philosophy that defines her life: "Art through passion and Architecture through reason."
For over three decades, she pursued a career as an environmental designer and architectural synthesis specialist in Paris, collaborating on major European infrastructure projects and BIM architectural designs (such as the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Cœur Défense Tower, and Trinity Tower). In parallel, she nurtured her personal visual research, exploring the world as a vital space of circulation that she seeks to capture through various pictorial mediums, including painting, modelling, and eco-responsible structures. Her work has been recognized with several distinctions, notably the Jury Prize in 2006 (Société Académique de l'Orne) and, more recently, certificates of artistic merit at the Luxembourg Art Prize (2023, 2024, 2025).
Now based in her studio in Normandy (Saint-Evroult-de-Montfort), Valérie Feminon merges her diverse skills—ranging from 3D digital modelling (Blender) to the exploration of physical materials—to devote herself fully to an innovative monumental, participative, and hybrid sculptural project that connects physical and virtual realities.
Her approach explores the porosity between the immaterial and the material, questioning how a human intention or a collective thought can manifest within permanent physical structures. Influenced by Yves Klein's quest for the immaterial, the poetic lightness of Alexander Calder, and Joseph Beuys' concept of "social sculpture" (art élargi), she views creation as an alchemical and collective process. For the artist, the artwork becomes a physical interface, a monumental stainless-steel receptacle designed to capture light and merge with its environment, where the convergence of human intentions directly shapes the sculpture.
