Sophie Bueno-Boutellier
Born in 1974 in Toulouse.
Sophie Bueno-Boutellier's work draws its inspiration from art and ancient mystical or theosophical writings as well as rationalist and scientific theories. Her enigmatically titled pieces employ a wide range of materials (wood, earth, salt, steel, fabrics, stone…), in which the organic, the abstract, the geometric and the figurative are utterly free to mix and are found side by side. Her installations, which the artist creates instinctively, inspire direct, immediate perception in the viewer. Imbued with a certain mysticism, her works explore the unconscious and question the notion of transcendence in art. The accumulation of signs and symbols points to several possible readings, trains of thought that viewers can follow between reason and intuition.
Credit : Patrick Lefebvre