A residency at Maison Flottante in June 2026.
Iris Delcourt is a visual artist who lives and works in Paris.
She explores images and pictorial gestures through her use of text and textiles. She experiments with and develops hybrid manual processes, combining the precise gestures of textile craftsmanship with the more spontaneous gestures of painting. She blurs the boundaries between media in search of indirect images, detached from reality, which appear like reflections in water, mirages, or figures on the verge of disappearing.
Artistic approach
Iris’s work first took the form of a text written in 2024, La femme qui dort (The Sleeping Woman), based on her experience as a fitting model in a haute couture fashion house. In it, she depicts a character who splits in two, escaping from a body subjected to scrutiny, distorted by tight clothing, passed from hand to hand in the fitting room. This woman escapes from her body to a fantasized elsewhere, made up of scenes from paintings she remembers, populated by the solitary and inscrutable figures of sleeping women. She sees in these figures a troubled reflection, finding herself confronted with other women who are also escaping, this time through sleep, whose secret elsewhere behind closed eyelids, impervious to the gaze, she can only imagine. She projects stories, actions, and memories into these paintings, which merge to form hybrid narratives.
Iris experiments with skills at the intersection of several mediums, which intertwine within the process itself. The lines blur between painting, printing, and weaving. She sets up experimental processes around these practices. It is slow, meticulous work that involves several machines and different skills.
Artist’s biography
Iris Delcourt was born in 2002 in Paris, where she lives and works. She graduated from the Textile and Material Design department of the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2025.
Partners
The residency is supported by the Seine-Eure metropolitan area and Eure Department.