« The eye is laughing, the voice is joyful. However, sometimes a shadow passes, very quickly, imperceptible, before the light returns. Sophie Delaporte’s works are like her, sunny, vibrant, but not only…
Behind the hopeful joy of color, a world emerges that we cannot control, neither its vibrations, nor its complexity, nor the clouds, nor the threats. We would like it to be beautiful like an optimistic flag inflated with hope dancing in the wind, like the noon sun before the evening storm. But we take it as it is, full on, in all the strength of its contrasts.
An artist with a unique background, Sophie Delaporte embarked on studies in mathematics before joining the prestigious Parisian school Louis Lumière, then working with Jean-Paul Gauthier, Balenciaga, and Vogue magazine… « As a female photographer, I was keen to free the models from their status as models. I wanted to make them move, dance with their clothes, » she insists. The result is almost pictorial, watercolored images. A miracle for someone who has long and secretly dreamed of being a painter!
Sophie Delaporte continues her artistic experimentation, breaking down barriers between different worlds, using photography, installation, or video as mediums for her imagination. She sees herself as a creator of poetic, organic, and subversive images. Her installations of textiles, plastics, or cut papers brandish the threat of a manufactured world that defies the fragility of reality. The sharp moods of bright colors and chemical pigments hybridize with the subtle melancholy of nature. Exposed to the assaults of elements such as water, air, and sky, the works come to life, transform, born from the unpredictable poetry of the moment.
In the caption, Sophie Delaporte places her plastic, paper, and cut textile forms in the heart of a natural environment crossed by the elements. The wind, water, and light play with the installations, creating living, ephemeral works, immortalized by photography. The series « Color Abstraction, » created indoors, expresses human vulnerability in the face of the use of chemical pigments on textile materials. No photos have been retouched. »
« The eye is laughing, the voice is joyful. However, sometimes a shadow passes, very quickly, imperceptible, before the light returns. Sophie Delaporte’s works are like her, sunny, vibrant, but not only…
Behind the hopeful joy of color, a world emerges that we cannot control, neither its vibrations, nor its complexity, nor the clouds, nor the threats. We would like it to be beautiful like an optimistic flag inflated with hope dancing in the wind, like the noon sun before the evening storm. But we take it as it is, full on, in all the strength of its contrasts.
An artist with a unique background, Sophie Delaporte embarked on studies in mathematics before joining the prestigious Parisian school Louis Lumière, then working with Jean-Paul Gauthier, Balenciaga, and Vogue magazine… « As a female photographer, I was keen to free the models from their status as models. I wanted to make them move, dance with their clothes, » she insists. The result is almost pictorial, watercolored images. A miracle for someone who has long and secretly dreamed of being a painter!
Sophie Delaporte continues her artistic experimentation, breaking down barriers between different worlds, using photography, installation, or video as mediums for her imagination. She sees herself as a creator of poetic, organic, and subversive images. Her installations of textiles, plastics, or cut papers brandish the threat of a manufactured world that defies the fragility of reality. The sharp moods of bright colors and chemical pigments hybridize with the subtle melancholy of nature. Exposed to the assaults of elements such as water, air, and sky, the works come to life, transform, born from the unpredictable poetry of the moment.
In the caption, Sophie Delaporte places her plastic, paper, and cut textile forms in the heart of a natural environment crossed by the elements. The wind, water, and light play with the installations, creating living, ephemeral works, immortalized by photography. The series « Color Abstraction, » created indoors, expresses human vulnerability in the face of the use of chemical pigments on textile materials. No photos have been retouched. »
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