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Sophie Blet

Sophie Blet lives and works between Marseille and Bremen.

After studying Art History, she continued her education at the Pavillon Bosio – École Supérieure d’Arts Plastiques de Monaco (MfA / Art and Scenography) and a postgraduate programme, before joining the HGB, Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig (guest master's student and Post-Diploma). 
Her artistic practice unfolds through a range of media and is sustained by ongoing dialogues with other researchers, in which the apprehension of reality shifts from a perceived space toward an uncertain, still indeterminate one.

Her work has been presented in museums, contemporary art centres, universities, research laboratories, independent art spaces and international residency programmes, including the Galerie Michel Journiac at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne, the Centre d'art La Graineterie, the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), the festival L'Art dans les Chapelles, Galerie Bipolar (Leipzig), ahah (Paris), the Nice Observatory, the Collection Lambert (Avignon), the FRAC Sud – Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain (Marseille), and the HBKsaar Galerie (Saarbrücken). Her practice has also been supported through several awards and international research residencies.

Her first monograph was published in 2024 and includes a series of conversations and critical essays that examine and contextualise her artistic practice.

She is currently pursuing a binational PhD jointly conducted at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen (Germany) and the École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille – INSEAMM (France), under the supervision of Mona Schieren and Vanessa Brito. Entitled Entropic Landscapes and States of Disorientation: On the Entanglements of Ecological Psychic States and Space, her research examines the ecological crisis as a new anthropological turning point, exploring its perceptual, affective and aesthetic implications.

RESUME
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EDUCATION AND TEACHING

2018   Meisterschüler HGB Leipzig, (Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig), Class Joachim Blank, DE 
2017   MFA, Master Art&Scenography, With distinction from the jury, Pavillon Bosio, Monaco, MO 
2016   HGB Leipzig, Class Joachim Blank, Space and Installation, DE
2015   BA Fine Arts, With distinction from the jury, Pavillon Bosio, Monaco, MO
2006   Art History studies - diploma of guide lecturer, Nice, FR

Since   Regular teaching within art schools and higher art education institutions (Pavillon Bosio, Monaco, ESBAN Nîmes, Sorbonne, Paris 1, CPI 2018   Sculpture, Beaux-arts de Marseille...)

SOLO SHOWS / DUO SHOW

2026          Il se pourrait que cette image demeure, FRAC Sud – Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (Regional           Collection of Contemporary Art), Espace Muséal, Tourrettes-sur-Loup, France.

2025Leaving ony the skin of things, La Traverse, Marseille, FR
2024Not empty exactly, maybe just impossible, L’Ahah, Paris, curated by Diane Der Markarian, FR
2023Du muable, Salon du Salon, Marseille, Art-o-rama Hlm, FR
2023Becomings: detours and turning points,  residency Huet Repolt, Bruxelles, BE
2023Contre-lumière, Contre-paupière, L’Art dans les chapelles, Bretagne, cur. by Eric Suchère, FR
2022Une coupure dans le continu, galerie 22,48m2, Paris, duo show with Jean-Baptiste Caron, FR
2022A present projecting its reflection into the possible, Printemps de l’art contemporain, Marseille, FR
2021Est-ce à dire que la vision du monde en 3 dimensions soit inutile ? Dos Mares, Marseille, FR
2016Le Grand Méridien, Observatory of Nice, FR

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2026Geométries du Vivant, cur. Domitille Dorgeval, Topographie de l’art, Paris, FR
2025MAD, Multiple art days, More Project, Fondation Fiminco, Paris, FR
2025Corps collectifs, Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris, curated by Anne-Lou Vicente, FR
2024Liquidation totale, Pal Project, curated by Andy Rankin / Oblivion Collective, FR
2024He needs me, 30 years of the Collection Veys, Brussels, BE
2024Rouvrir le Monde, Château de Servières, Marseille, curated by Martine Robin, FR
2023La réciproque, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, curated by Henri Guette, FR
2021CosmicomiX, galerie Art-Cade, Marseille, curated by Jean-Marc Lévy Leblond, FR
2021Elementa II, Observatory of Nice, Circa-ip, FR
2020Biennal Art Press, MAMC+, Museum of Modern and Contemporary art,
 Saint Etienne, curated by Etienne Hatt, Romain Mathieu, FR
202013th Biennal Young creation, Centre d’art la Graineterie, Houilles, FR
2020Objets inanimés, Villa Henry, curated by Isabelle Pellegrini, Nice, FR
2019La Relève, as part of the festival Parallèle, Galerie H.O, Marseille, FR
20188th young creation prize, Saint Remy, FR
2019Host Call, Open School Gallery, Beaux-Arts of Nantes, FR
2017No man is an island, jardin exotique, Monaco, curated by Mathilde Expose, MO
2017U + (x + y + z) = U, Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-provence, FR
2016100 years after the Ready Made, HGB Galerie, Leipzig, DE
2016Troja2, with Remy Zaugg, Galerie Bipolar, Leipzig, DE
2016Artagon II, exhibition of the finalist, Passage de Retz, cur. Keimis Henni et Anna Labouze, Paris, FR


GRANTS / RESIDENCIES / AWARDS

 

2026Il se pourrait que cette image demeure, FRAC PACA, research and exhibition residency, Parc des pré-alpes d’azur, FR
2025Ferme-Asile, Sion, Switzerland / WSL (Federal Institude for Forest), Zürich, CH
2025Solastalgia, Research residency, Château de Servières/Saint Gabriel Social Center, Marseille, FR
2024Collection Lambert, Research Residency, Avignon, FR
2024Research grant ADAGP : Spaces of disorientation 
2023Residency Huet Repolt, research and production residency, Bruxelles, BE
2022Individual Creative Grant, D.R.A.C PACA : Objects as Triggers / Cosmological Spaces 
2022Research residency, Les Capucins Art Center, Embrun, FR
2022Research residency, with Nathalie Desmet, Prieuré de Ganagobie, FR
2021Dos Mares, production residency, Marseille, FR
2021CNAP  grant (National Centre for Visual Arts grant)
2021Research residency, Observatory of Nice, FR
2019Laureate of the Host Call, Le Voyage à Nantes Prize, FR
2018Resident at the Spinnerei (artist studios) Leipzig, DE
2017Resident at Quai Antoine 1er, Atelier Grant, Cultural dep., Monaco, MO
2017Monaco Project for the Arts Award
2015Resident at the Côte d’Azur Observatory, Nice, FR

 

PERFORMANCES / INTERVIEWS / POETRY

2023Du muable, in duo with Sophie Lapalu, Salon du Salon, Marseille, FR
2022A detour in the continious,  gallery 22,48m², Paris, FR
2021Where maybe time does not exist, Galerie Art-Cade, Marseille, FR
2021Nothing says time will always exist,  conversation with Jan-Philipp Frühsorge, FR
2021Interview with Etienne Klein, physician et philosopher, FR
2017Roman Signer, Interview, Théâtre des variétés, Monaco, MO
2015Tatiana Trouvé, exhibition Desire Lines, assistant, Galerie Gagosian, New-York

 

TEXTS / PUBLICATIONS / POETRY

2024Not empty exactly, maybe just impossible, Monograph, with the contributions of
 Antoinette Jattiot, Anne-Lou Vicente, Diane Der Markarian, Maxime Matray
2023Du muable, Diane Der Markarian, exhibition text, Salon du Salon
2023Clare-Mary Puyfoulhoux, By walking, Text for L’art dans les chapelles
2023Interview with the online art revue Horst und Edeltraut
2023Because there could have been a surface, artist edition
2023Becomings: detours and turning points, artist edition, residency Huet Repolt
2022Marie Cantos, A break in the continiuous, exhibition text, galerry 22,48m2, Paris
2022Outside | Outside, artist edition
2022A knife without a blade, for which only the handle is missing, artist edition
2021Revue Alliage, CosmicomiX, publicated by Jean-Marc Lévy Leblond
2020Etienne Hatt, for the catalogue of the Art Press Biennal 
2020Revue Transfuge, november 2020, À ceux qui viennent, Aude de Bourbon Parme
2020Florian Gaité, text for the Biennale jeune création, Centre d’art de la Graineterie
2020And Darkness is restored, Maxime Matray

      

PORTFOLIO
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Leaving only the skins of things  Solo Show, La Traverse, Marseille (FR), 2025

Leaving only the skins of things 
Solo Show, La Traverse, Marseille (FR), 2025

“Plus que la peau des choses (that could in french be understood both as more or less than the skin of things) unfolds as a milieu, a threshold space between the organic form and its reflected domain or its becoming-other, in a constant state of indeterminacy between surface-relic and the beginning of an intensive movement, a potential latent energy."

Module-measure (metamorphoses)

Module-measure (metamorphoses) 
Pattern making fabric, electric cables, cables, copper wire, black paint, thermoformable sheath

Excerpt from exhibition text:

“…Thus, this ‘ground’¹ - whose whiteness, silence, and stillness of the pattern fabric contrast with the black lines running through it - appears animated by infinitesimal and infinite variations, in a metamorphic condition ; traversed by potential energies with a hybrid appearance - between electrical cables, sheaths that have retained the imprint of ropes, and snake moults slipping and probing in and out of the folds.
The installation appears as what could be a field of intensities, a muted activity, ‘constituted by an infinity of forces […] from which an actualization (in the form of an individuated body - that is to say, affected and affecting) may take shape.’²

¹ The German term Grund means at once: reason/foundation, ground, and soil.

² Sophie Gosselin, on myth and its pre-cosmic dimension, in Cannibal Metaphysics, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.

False-reflection (illusion of a present time)

False-reflection (illusion of a present time) 
inkjet print on 70g kozo paper beetween
two glass plaques

In this Faux-reflets series, fragments of my installations are photographed through the reflection of a glass. Printed and then placed between two glass plaques, they are displayed slightly out of alignment with the object, which is no longer present, or present elsewhere, in another configuration within the exhibition space, in a play of echoes between the current installation's reflection and its photographed counterpart.
This displacement introduces a kind of temporal thickness, an additional layer, and suggests the possibility of a slight disjunction, a gentle disorientation within the apparent fixity of things.

Module-measure (metamorphoses) 

Module-measure (metamorphoses) 
Pattern making fabric, electric cables, cables, copper wire, black paint, thermoformable sheath

Excerpt from exhibition text:

“…Thus, this ‘ground’¹ - whose whiteness, silence, and stillness of the pattern fabric contrast with the black lines running through it - appears animated by infinitesimal and infinite variations, in a metamorphic condition ; traversed by potential energies with a hybrid appearance - between electrical cables, sheaths that have retained the imprint of ropes, and snake moults slipping and probing in and out of the folds.
The installation appears as what could be a field of intensities, a muted activity, ‘constituted by an infinity of forces […] from which an actualization (in the form of an individuated body - that is to say, affected and affecting) may take shape.’²

¹ The German term Grund means at once: reason/foundation, ground, and soil.

² Sophie Gosselin, on myth and its pre-cosmic dimension, in Cannibal Metaphysics, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.

Like a world, identical to the world, this one hollow

Like a world, identical to the world, this one hollow
brass axes, prints on latex, tinted steel frame
variable dimensions

Solve-Coagula (Solastalgia)
Solve-Coagula (Solastalgia) - 2024 - ... Inkjet transfer, paper, binder and painting oil on brass Variable dimensions

Solve-Coagula (Solastalgia) 
Inkjet transfer, paper, binder and painting oil on brass Variable dimensions

In the Solve-Coagula series - (2021-...) - landscape photographs are transferred in successive phases to brass plates, combining intervation with oil paint. While the images in the first series represent skies whose nature, between cloud and explosion, remains ambiguous, the Solve-Coagula (Solastalgia) series focuses more specifically on images of fires and forest conflagrations. The title, borrowed from environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht, describes unease, the erosion of a sense of belonging, and a form of desynchronization in the face of a disappearing nature.
If the reflective background seems to create the illusion or near-hallucination of crackling, the surface recalls photography, the representation of the real and the present, making several contiguous planes overlap and intersect (sometimes doubling them, inverting them, or flipping them), evoking a form of disorientation regarding the ongoing temporality..
 

Solve-Coagula (Solastalgia)

Solve-Coagula (Solastalgia) 
Inkjet transfer, paper, binder and painting oil on brass Variable dimensions

In the Solve-Coagula series - (2021-...) - landscape photographs are transferred in successive phases to brass plates, combining intervation with oil paint. While the images in the first series represent skies whose nature, between cloud and explosion, remains ambiguous, the Solve-Coagula (Solastalgia) series focuses more specifically on images of fires and forest conflagrations. The title, borrowed from environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht, describes unease, the erosion of a sense of belonging, and a form of desynchronization in the face of a disappearing nature.
If the reflective background seems to create the illusion or near-hallucination of crackling, the surface recalls photography, the representation of the real and the present, making several contiguous planes overlap and intersect (sometimes doubling them, inverting them, or flipping them), evoking a form of disorientation regarding the ongoing temporality..

Solve-Coagula (Solastalgia)

Solve-Coagula (Solastalgia) 
Inkjet transfer, paper, binder and painting oil on brass Variable dimensions

In the Solve-Coagula series - (2021-...) - landscape photographs are transferred in successive phases to brass plates, combining intervation with oil paint. While the images in the first series represent skies whose nature, between cloud and explosion, remains ambiguous, the Solve-Coagula (Solastalgia) series focuses more specifically on images of fires and forest conflagrations. The title, borrowed from environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht, describes unease, the erosion of a sense of belonging, and a form of desynchronization in the face of a disappearing nature.
If the reflective background seems to create the illusion or near-hallucination of crackling, the surface recalls photography, the representation of the real and the present, making several contiguous planes overlap and intersect (sometimes doubling them, inverting them, or flipping them), evoking a form of disorientation regarding the ongoing temporality..

Looking inside, what outside

Bone vertebra, wax vertebra, leather skin, wax needle, beetle, inkjet print (dog hair, from The Arnolfini Portrait), brass, wooden stand

Looking inside, what outside (2023-...) is an open series of installations taking as starting point an element of a Still Life painting, the vivid but then frozen detail of a genre scene, a fragment of symbolic space in a painting, replaying the devices (thresholds, change of scale, doublings, reflections...) within these representations of seeing and this symbolic embedding of vision and the world.

Inspired by animist masks that unfold multiple interiorities on a single plane, this particular sculpture deploys various surfaces/envelopes, each defining a distinct subjectivity.
 

Exhibition view, Not empty exactly, maybe just impossible - Solo show, L'ahah-moret, Paris, 2024

Exhibition view, Not empty exactly, maybe just impossible - Solo show, L'ahah-moret, Paris, 2024

Exhibition view, Not empty exactly, maybe just impossible - Solo show, L'ahah-moret, Paris, 2024

Exhibition view, Not empty exactly, maybe just impossible - Solo show, L'ahah-moret, Paris, 2024

Counter-light, Counter-lid

Counter-light, Counter-lid

Installation for L'art dans les chapelles - 2023
Chapelle de la Trinité, Castennec

Hinges between things
Brass plaques, pattern fabric, wax blades, glass plaques
 

Hinges between things

Hinges between things
Brass plaques, pattern fabric, wax blades, glass plaques

Installation for L'art dans les chapelles - 2023
Chapelle de la Trinité, Castennec

Counter-light, Counter-lid
Installation for L'art dans les chapelles - 2023
Chapelle de la Trinité, Castennec

Du muable (refers to a constantly changing state)

Du muable* - 2023
texts, margins, plaster casts, boxes, inkjet prints
Variable display

*refers to a constantly changing state

Du muable (which refers to things whose state is constantly changing) held within it the idea of being the opposite of immutable. This installation is intended as a memory, or as an open archive. It consists of several éléments that to my mind are both on the periphery of the work - that do not really belong in an installation - and at the same time catalyze and nourish it (texts, images, casts, folded papers, publication margins, boxes). The bookcase, whether laid out on the floor or in the form of shelves, is a space that could be infinite, in which text and objects can unfold as well as withdrawin to themselves, retreat into their containers, appear in the transparency of a stratum of paper or remain on the
surface of a molded box, just as a stream of consciousness would be at a given moment.

Exhibition view: Collection Lambert, Avignon, 2024
 

Du muable

Du muable* - 2023
texts, margins, plaster casts, boxes, inkjet prints
Variable display

*refers to a constantly changing state

Du muable (which refers to things whose state is constantly changing) held within it the idea of being the opposite of immutable. This installation is intended as a memory, or as an open archive. It consists of several éléments that to my mind are both on the periphery of the work - that do not really belong in an installation - and at the same time catalyze and nourish it (texts, images, casts, folded papers, publication margins, boxes). The bookcase, whether laid out on the floor or in the form of shelves, is a space that could be infinite, in which text and objects can unfold as well as withdrawin to themselves, retreat into their containers, appear in the transparency of a stratum of paper or remain on the
surface of a molded box, just as a stream of consciousness would be at a given moment.
 

Du muable

Du muable* - 2023
texts, margins, plaster casts, boxes, inkjet prints
Variable display

*refers to a constantly changing state

Du muable (which refers to things whose state is constantly changing) held within it the idea of being the opposite of immutable. This installation is intended as a memory, or as an open archive. It consists of several éléments that to my mind are both on the periphery of the work - that do not really belong in an installation - and at the same time catalyze and nourish it (texts, images, casts, folded papers, publication margins, boxes). The bookcase, whether laid out on the floor or in the form of shelves, is a space that could be infinite, in which text and objects can unfold as well as withdrawin to themselves, retreat into their containers, appear in the transparency of a stratum of paper or remain on the
surface of a molded box, just as a stream of consciousness would be at a given moment.

Exhibition view: Château de Servières, Marseille, 2024