Sophie Bassot and Philippe Sutter participate in the 27th Sacred Art Trail in Rosheim.
Born and Reborn — Saints Peter and Paul Church, Rosheim.
For its 27th edition, the Sacred Art Trail, sponsored by the Diocese of Strasbourg, is taking over religious sites in Alsace with contemporary works created specifically around the theme "Born and Reborn." An invitation to explore, through art, the paths of transformation, reconstruction, and renewed energy.
It is in this context that Sophie Bassot is exhibiting at the Saints Peter and Paul Church in Rosheim,
accompanied by her artistic partner, the ceramist Philippe Sutter.
This location was not chosen at random: a masterpiece of Romanesque art, built in the 11th century on an ancient Celtic cult site, it is pervaded by powerful earth energies and imbued with a spiritual intensity that deeply echoes the artist's approach.
Sophie Bassot paints as one breathes after an ordeal. Her work is pervaded by the movements of nature, by inner light, by the vital impulse that emerges from silence. She captures what resists, what is reborn, what still beats. For her, art seeks not to smooth over, but to bring out a beauty in the making, irregular, intuitive, vibrant, which rejects fixed contours and expected forms.
For her, painting is to embody the essential: that which connects the individual to the world, the intimate to the universal, the personal breath to a greater breath.
Faced with this pictorial energy, Philippe Sutter's ceramics form a precise and profound counterpoint. Inspired by ancient forms, he penetrates the material to reveal its memory. His crystallized glazes, his controlled lines, his pieces as if born of fire and time, respond to Sophie's canvases with a serene force. Together, their works interact in the church like two complementary breaths: one fluid and organic, the other mineral and stable. One springs forth, the other anchors. One captures the changing life, the other bears its lasting trace.
In a place as inhabited as the Rosheim church—sacred architecture, vibrant geometry, symbols carved in stone—this artistic encounter takes on a special dimension. It offers the visitor a path of sensations and intuition, a journey where art becomes a sensitive response to fragility, resilience, and hope.
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