Sabine Lalande
After starting out with video performances, including the highly acclaimed Colloque entre Plures et Una presented at Amsterdam's Steedelijk Museum in 1996 (awarded a prize by Miquel Barcelo at the 2002 International Film Festival on Clay and Glass in Montpellier), and a first series of sculpted heads, Sabine Lalande has since concentrated on creating stoneware figures, which she believes respond to an inner need.
For the past three years, she has been particularly interested in portraits of women, and for her first participation in the show, she is presenting one of her recent series of sculptures, a work which, in a trans-generational way and in order to better grasp them, summons up the figures of her mother, her daughter, or even her own, as if in search of a universal rather than individual self. A floating universe, transcending the reality of faces and volumes, to make them appear in a different, more archaic, more spiritual space, taking us back to our own questioning. It's a way for her to seize for a moment our original, primitive and natural world, the antipode of our ultra-contemporary societies, to suspend it for a moment and bury it in matter. The masks question us. The theater and the cult are not far away, disturbing us in our comfort and our little everyday arrangements. The face becomes a space of revelation before our very eyes. JMD
Born in 1971. Lives and works in Paris and Vaux-Sur-Seine (Île-de-France).
TRAINING
-2000: Advanced training grant (INMA) from C. and N. Champy. Champy - 1990-95: Multi-media art, ESAD Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) - 1987-90: LAA Auguste Renoir, Paris.
EXHIBITIONS
- 2021: Chupas, solo show, Arterritoires / Frontignan (Hérault) - 2015: Collection Gallery, SOFA-Chicago (US) - 2014: Three Girls Sculptures, with AAF Project, Tao Art Gallery, Shanghai (CN)
- 2010: Group show, CLAY Keramikmuseum Danmark, Middlefart (DN) - 2008: Residency at Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, with support from AAF Project, Shiga (JP).
