Born in 1951 in Agadir, Chantalpetit spent her childhood between Morocco, Algeria, London and France, where her family settled permanently in 1964.
From 1970 to 1972, she studied at the National School of Decorative Arts and the National School of Fine Arts in Paris.
From 1973 to 1979, while continuing her graphic work, she devoted herself to the theater, joining the GEL troupe (free expression group), an experimental theater company founded and directed by Véronique Petit and Eduardo Manet which performed at the Cartoucherie de Vincennes and in international festivals.
Born in 1951 in Agadir, Chantalpetit spent her childhood between Morocco, Algeria, London and France, where her family settled permanently in 1964.
From 1970 to 1972, she studied at the National School of Decorative Arts and the National School of Fine Arts in Paris.
From 1973 to 1979, while continuing her graphic work, she devoted herself to theater, joining the GEL troupe (free expression group), an experimental theater company founded and directed by Véronique Petit and Eduardo Manet which performed at the Cartoucherie in Vincennes and in international festivals. She designed and created the sets and costumes for several shows. In 1980 she exhibited for the first time with the Panique group (Panique Universelle, Maison de la Culture de Rennes).
A multidisciplinary artist, Chantalpetit develops a prolific body of work organized by large sequences like so many chapters of a long novel within which paintings, sculptures, drawings, and videos interact, intertwine, and generate one another to form a living, constantly changing corpus. At the heart of the artist's practice, improvisation and accident contradict classical writing. The strength of her art undoubtedly lies in this duality. Thus, for each of the mediums she uses, Chantalpetit always plays on two registers: construction and destruction of forms, wildness and sophistication, materials and reserves, mastery and freedom.
His work is regularly presented in museums and galleries in France and abroad, and is part of numerous public and private collections.
