Adriann Beghin

Adriann Béghin is a visual artist born in 1995 in Toulouse, based in Lille. A graduate of the ESAD de Reims (2020), she has developed a sensitive and organic sculptural practice in which matter and space enter into dialogue around defining themes: the constraints of the body, identity, and its disturbances.

Her sculptural work is distinguished by a porous and living materiality, giving form to hybrid objects suspended between the vegetal, the animal, and the human — unidentified forms that resist categorisation and sharply interrogate the construction of identity. Her work has been presented in significant institutions, including the Frac Lorraine, where she exhibited the series Lustful Vegetables in 2023 as part of the Degrés Est exhibition — forms that are part-vegetal, part-animal, with unmistakably human silhouettes — as well as the Fondation Fernet Branca and the Jardin des Plantes de Lille. These exhibitions confirm the distinctive place Adriann Béghin occupies within the landscape of contemporary French sculpture.

Based in Lille since completing her studies, she participates in artistic residencies — including at Villa Rocabella — and continues a research practice that brings sculpture, environment, and intimate memory into dialogue, affirming a coherent and continuously evolving artistic voice.

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As part of the Les Gardiennes de la Mer artistic residency at Résidences Rocabella, Adriann Béghin engages with the coastal landscape as a space of direct resonance with the questions that run through her entire practice: hybrid bodies, forms in the process of becoming, and the porous boundaries between the kingdoms of the living. The sea — a space of permanent metamorphosis where organisms transform, adapt, and resist — enters into natural dialogue with her part-vegetal, part-animal, part-human sculptures.

This residency allows her to observe the morphologies of the shoreline — seaweed, shells, wave-shaped rocks, marine organisms of unsettling form — as sources of inspiration to feed her sculptural research. Between intimate memory and natural environment, between the raw matter the sea deposits and the organic forms she has been shaping in her Lille studio, Adriann Béghin explores new dimensions of her practice — where identity, body, and living matter merge into a single substance in perpetual transformation.