Charlotte Massip (b. 1971) graduated from the École Supérieure Estienne des Arts et Industries Graphiques in Paris and the Decorative Arts School of Strasbourg. She has exhibited in various galleries, including Michèle Broutta-Paris, Galerie Fürstenberg-Paris, Wégimont in Belgium, the Monastery of Santa Clara in Seville in the exhibition “Hommage à Francisco de Zurbaran” in Spain, l'Orangerie du Sénat in the summers of 2014 and 2018, and the Fondation Taylor in Paris, as well as in numerous cultural centers in Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Marseille.

She completed an artist residency as an engraver at Casa de Velázquez, the French Academy in Madrid (2012-2013), with the support of the Académie de France, where she created the large-format series Saintes Martyrs (Holy Martyrs). In 2016, she won the Jeune Graveur award at the Salon d'Automne in Paris.

The artist acknowledges the influence of Hans Bellmer, Rudolf Schlichter, Fred Deux, José Hernández, Richard Lindner, and Giorgio de Chirico in her work.

"I believe that what led me to drawing and engraving/printing was my fascination with detail. Not just any detail, but the kind that reveals a deeper truth. So, everything related to texture—skin, veins, and hair—was merely a thin barrier, the last one before plunging into the depths.

The art of engraving/printing can be compared to delicate scalpel incisions, whose consequences remain somewhat mysterious. My relationship with copper was quite revealing. Cutting the metal felt like surgery to me, starting with the skin and continuing into the darkness of ink and the blood of the material."