Elsa Dray-Farges

Elsa Dray-Farges (b. 1985, France) is a visual artist living and working in Montreuil. A graduate of ENSAAMA and the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, she has been developing a practice for over a decade that oscillates between sculpture and drawing.

Her work explores the porous boundaries between reality, dreams, and nightmares, creating a fantastical iconography inhabited by ambiguous figures at the intersection of the grotesque and the marvelous. Drawing inspiration from folk carnivals, Tex Avery cartoons, the emotionally charged sculptures of Louise Bourgeois, as well as the fantastic allegorical worlds of Bruegel and James Ensor, she constructs a visual language where protection and threat coexist.

Dray-Farges regularly collaborates with fashion houses such as Hermès, Wouters & Hendrix, and Bonpoint, while continuing her artistic research on the transformations of the living and the place of the marvelous in contemporary realities.

In February 2025, she presented a solo exhibition at Galerie Cinema in Paris, showcasing a series of large-scale frescoes created for Judith Davis’s film Bonjour l’Asile, released the same year.