Born in 1985, Raphaële de Broissia lives in Annecy.
She studied textile design at the Françoise Conte school and plastic arts at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She is particularly inspired by the study of materials and colors, learned from the British sculptor Richard Deacon and the French painter Jean-Michel Alberola.
Her work is intimately linked to each of the places she invests and transforms with the help of everyday materials, accumulated, metamorphosed, renewed. She uses nails, balloons, newspapers, tape, citrus peels, books, etc. and boldly summons them to unexpected places. Her approach is also inspired by the practices of haute couture that she learned during her studies and within the Chanel house where she worked part-time for five years.
After the Beaux-Arts, alongside her personal work, Raphaële created an association, In Fieri (“in the making”), with ten other young artists. The collective has set up several times in singular places: cellars of a castle, cloister of a former convent, banks of an underground river... with a simple rule: respect the particular identity of the place while transcending it.
During the four years she spent in Hong Kong, from 2016 to 2020, Raphaële de Broissia created several installations. Nesting, an imposing sculpture in bamboo and nylon inspired by the scaffolding of Hong Kong, Sublimation Drapery, a huge weaving made of colored photo negatives, Backstory and Ding ding windows which have taken over the trams whose windows it has covered with these same negatives polychromes. She also developed the material  Paper Tapestry”, a material technique she developed at the Beaux-Arts in 2012, based on latex balloons and masking tape. The discovery of Hong Kong dried fish led him to reuse this material and to decline it in several forms: bas-relief, frescoes, collages, tapestries...
Back in France, in 2020, she moved with her family to Annecy where she curated the exhibition "Botanical Legends" at the Château de Menthon-Saint-Bernard in the summer of 2021. She notably installed in one of the Secret d'alcove rooms, a large tapestry of masking tape blends into the "greenery" of Aubusson.

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