About
(b. 1994, France)
Visual Artist and comic Writer,
Co-founder of Graphis Scripta.
To the intensity of reality, Sophie Couderc seeks to give a tangible figurative form.
Her work, centered around image and text, unfolds through series of drawings, large wool felts, and texts, sometimes transformed into books (poetry/fiction).
Through the creation of pictorial scenes that coexist familiarly with the strange, Sophie Couderc constructs fictional spaces from her intimate experience.
Deeply marked by the work and writings of scientists among whom astrophysicist Hélène Courtois and ethologist Frans de Waal, as well as by the disruption of the climatic balance, Sophie Couderc fabricates, through her work, a figurative and dreamlike sounding board for what we know of the living.
For several years, she has been working on and deepening the concept of the F[r]OG, Fluid [reified] Open Gateway. A Liminal Space made up of hybrid figures, icons of the relationship to affects and to the temporality of the world.
The F[r]OG originates from the intimate, immanent and daily phenomenon of visual hallucinations while falling asleep where: beneath the artist's closed eyelids, figures appear, interlace and morph into one another, thereby prefiguring an almost filial familiarity with the strange.
A place without hour or limit, the F[r]OG is made of windows and indetermination. Its inhabitants are of three types: static ones, passing-through ones, and observed ones. Three categories meant to evoke the statuses that humans grant themselves and those they give to what surrounds them.
In echo to the contemporary digital world where pain and tenderness overlap, Sophie Couderc explores a metamorphosis of the living as a way of apprehending the mutual existences of violence and beauty.
Visual Artist and comic Writer,
Co-founder of Graphis Scripta.
To the intensity of reality, Sophie Couderc seeks to give a tangible figurative form.
Her work, centered around image and text, unfolds through series of drawings, large wool felts, and texts, sometimes transformed into books (poetry/fiction).
Through the creation of pictorial scenes that coexist familiarly with the strange, Sophie Couderc constructs fictional spaces from her intimate experience.
Deeply marked by the work and writings of scientists among whom astrophysicist Hélène Courtois and ethologist Frans de Waal, as well as by the disruption of the climatic balance, Sophie Couderc fabricates, through her work, a figurative and dreamlike sounding board for what we know of the living.
For several years, she has been working on and deepening the concept of the F[r]OG, Fluid [reified] Open Gateway. A Liminal Space made up of hybrid figures, icons of the relationship to affects and to the temporality of the world.
The F[r]OG originates from the intimate, immanent and daily phenomenon of visual hallucinations while falling asleep where: beneath the artist's closed eyelids, figures appear, interlace and morph into one another, thereby prefiguring an almost filial familiarity with the strange.
A place without hour or limit, the F[r]OG is made of windows and indetermination. Its inhabitants are of three types: static ones, passing-through ones, and observed ones. Three categories meant to evoke the statuses that humans grant themselves and those they give to what surrounds them.
In echo to the contemporary digital world where pain and tenderness overlap, Sophie Couderc explores a metamorphosis of the living as a way of apprehending the mutual existences of violence and beauty.