EXHIBITIONS
Sophie Roy
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Career
With a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising in New York, Sophie Roy has a professional background in computer graphics, photography and multimedia. A self-taught artist, Sophie Roy progressed in her artistic career by experimenting with many techniques. Wishing to explore a lot of things, she launched without a specific goal, but quickly found that by imposing herself guidelines, she managed to better orient her work and go deeper into my explorations. She began with techniques she knew well, such as photography, digital photomontage and acrylic painting. It was with the aim of making an exhibition that her choices became clearer and that she decided to create series of works inspired by specific themes.
She mainly exhibits in cultural centres and observes a certain fascination in the encounter between the public and her art. When someone is touched or challenged by one of her pieces, Sophie likes to know what the work evokes in its mind. It allows her to realize that her creations have fluid meanings that can be defined by the spectators.
“Her images refer to the unconscious rather than to the rational.”
Sophie Roy’s artistic practice revolves around the exploration of ideas, concepts and universal themes using mixed techniques such as photomontage and the mixture between painting and image transfer. The photomontage opens her to a particular vision of the world. She realizes that, for example, unlike a photographic photograph that captures and freezes a precise moment in time, photomontage allows her to include the image of the same subject at different times and to express a vision of dynamic life, made of changes, of movements and transformations.
Her creative process for Perte de monde consists in combining different images including landscapes, urban places, people and animals using a photomontage technique, digitally manipulating photographic elements of different natures and historical periods. Seeking for the viewer to reflect on current social issues, her images refer to the unconscious rather than to the rational. They are symbolically and poetically evoking and allow us to make our own interpretation of it. As she spends a lot of time in front of a screen, she punctuates her creative periods of sports breaks by practicing running or walking. This allows her to reactivate her creative energy flow and open-mindedness.
Artistic approach
Inspiration
With her head often too full of ideas, Sophie draws her inspiration from her favourite themes: nature and her environment, news magazines and contemporary thinkers. It connects particularly with digital art, the processing of analog and digital images, as well as conceptual art.
Exhibition
At first glance, this work can represent the powerlessness that a person can feel in the face of things happening in the world, such as the destruction of the environment and wars. It also alludes to the fact that, most of the time, we are spectators to these terrible events through the media, with a certain distance, peacefully installed in our lounges. During a class presentation, one of the students shared his interpretation of this piece: he emphasized the presence of various time layers, displaying a black and white background photo, with an older feel, while the one that is superimposed on it is in colors, and obviously comes from a recent era.
In this student’s opinion, her artwork evokes a form of wisdom, meaning that we must revisit the past mistakes, in order to avoid making them in the future. This suggests an evolution of society, a message beyond the artist’s original intentions, and allows us to find a hidden meaning.
The exhibition Perte de monde presents a series of paintings exploring our relationship with the world. Resonating with our endless screen time lifestyle, the artist questions the future relations of humans between them, and with the environment. It also refers to the role of the media. When some communications platforms convey images of disasters and expose alarming bad news, others bet on the opposite, offering the ideal refuge offering images of happiness, comfort and novelty, as done by Instagram in particular.
Attend the exhibition
The exhibition takes place from November 14, 2021 to January 23, 2022 at the Museum. Hurry up and get tickets!