Jeanne Susplugas' art has the ambivalence of fairy tales. Her intrigues, with vernacular underpinnings, often topple into "folly, illusion, and the absurd," placing in question the real and its norms (…) "With vacillating irony," she sounds out the objects she seizes and the personal instances from which they arise. With a dialectical dynamic, her work swings between seductive aestheticism and critical detachment, between poetic suspense and incisive satire.

The essential ambivalence of her visual exploration draws life from a protean corpus consisting of photographs, projected slides, videos, drawings, and mixed-media installations. Often approached through series, her oeuvre has the inflections of a prose-poem, inspiring amused contemplation and visceral disquietude. Her uncanny fictions, presented in segments, find their origin in the minute observation of contemporary behaviors and impulses. Often in absentia, the body stands at the center of the artist's preoccupations, gripped in the irresolvable tension of contradictory forces. Across the prism of obsessions, both therapeutic and cosmetic, Susplugas thus explores the sphere of the intimate – its desires, uncertainties, and wounds.

Béatrice Gross, « A la limite des choses », in Expiry date. Jeanne Susplugas. Works 1999/2007 (Paris: Archibooks, 2007), pp. 11-12.