Herveline Cremmer (b. 1999, works in Berlin) is a French-English artist whose practice explores emotional turbulence, physically visualises emotional landscapes, and examines one’s emotional attachments to people, places, behavioural patterns, past experiences, and feelings that have long since passed.
Through a surreal visual language, Cremmer portrays how emotions spill over into the present to shape one's perceptions of reality and relationship with others. Her hyper-colorful oil paintings and somber monochrome lithographs present tense scenes of emotional heaviness, isolation, and the inescapable entrapment within one’s own emotional landscape. Featuring prominently across her practice are recurrent motifs of roots and fungi-like structures that extend from the subject, dissolving boundaries between the self, the environment, and others. Introspective in nature, her works question the connection between emotions and the conception of identity, exploring how past emotions quietly persist and continue to shape the present self.
With their dream-like quality and symbolism, these vulnerable works sit at the intersection of the uncanny and the abject, rendering invisible inner landscapes and tensions into physical form.
Herveline Cremmer graduated from Loughborough University, UK with a BFA(hons).