Presentation
Artist photographer, Sophie Zénon first gained attention at the end of the 1990s for her delicate silver prints of landscapes made in Mongolia between 1996 and 2009, a country which fascinates her for the intimate relationship of its inhabitants to nature and to the spiritual forces that animate it. Marked by this experience as much in life as in art, Sophie Zénon today articulates her work around recurring themes – memory, history, loss, the passage of time – often evoked through the relationship of the body to the landscape .
Photographs, reactivated archives, artist's books, videos, installations, but also glass engravings, monotypes, woven and modeled stampings... Sophie Zénon's work unfolds in a polyphonic narration, revealing the important place accorded to the artist to experimentation, materiality and the hybridization of mediums sometimes carried out with the complicity of art artisans. From her practice are born organic, vibrant and poetic works, guided by the notions of fragility, impermanence and the breath of life, where "the present is a receptacle of time and accumulated stories (...) that she crystallizes through the trace, the metaphor and the marvelous, giving them a form that is renewed each time" (*).
At the same time, since the 2000s, she has been developing plastic research on gesture and know-how in artistic professions, with a questioning of the making of our heritage - whether intimate or collective - on its representation and its transmission, considering the gesture as a vector of social bond.
Sophie Zénon is represented by Galerie XII in Paris and Los Angeles.
(*) Christine Coste, Sophie Zénon, L'Œil, May 2023
Topographie végétale (2)
Sophie Zénon
Sculpture - 50 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$2,468
La Seille (1)
Sophie Zénon
Photography - 230 x 150 x 0.2 cm Photography - 90.6 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$1,683
Topographie végétale (1)
Sophie Zénon
Sculpture - 50 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$2,468
Livre XIII / Armeria vulgaris Willd. (Armérie à longues feuilles, Armérie allongée), 2023, in Herbarium Florum obsidionalium (2021-2023)
Sophie Zénon
Photography - 30.5 x 41 cm Photography - 12 x 16.1 inch
$4,488
Livre XII / Sisyrinchium montanum Greene (Bermudienne des montagnes, Herbe aux yeux bleus, Sisyrinque des montagnes), 2021, in Herbarium Florum obsidionalium (2021-2023)
Sophie Zénon
Photography - 30.5 x 41 cm Photography - 12 x 16.1 inch
$4,488
Livre I / Berteroa incana (L.) DC. (Alysse blanche, Alysson blanc, Bertéroa Blanc), 2021, in Herbarium Florum obsidionalium (2021-2023)
Sophie Zénon
Photography - 30.5 x 41 cm Photography - 12 x 16.1 inch
$4,488
Livre IV / Eryngium giganteum L. (Panicaut géant), 2022, in Herbarium Florum obsidionalium (2021-2023)
Sophie Zénon
Photography - 30.5 x 41 cm Photography - 12 x 16.1 inch
$4,488
Livre XI / Scirpus atrovirens Willd. (Scirpe vert sombre), 2023, in Herbarium Florum obsidionalium (2021-2023)
Sophie Zénon
Photography - 30.5 x 41 cm Photography - 12 x 16.1 inch
$4,488
Livre X / Potentilla recta L. (Potentille droite), 2022, in Herbarium Florum obsidionalium (2021-2023)
Sophie Zénon
Photography - 30.5 x 41 cm Photography - 12 x 16.1 inch
$4,488
Livre IX / Potentilla norvegica L. (Potentille de Norvège), 2021, in Herbarium Florum obsidionalium (2021-2023)
Sophie Zénon
Photography - 30.5 x 41 cm Photography - 12 x 16.1 inch
$4,488
Livre VIII / Pilosella pilosella subsp. bauhinii (Schult.) S. Braüt. & Greuter (épervière de Bauhin), 2021, in Herbarium Florum obsidionalium (2021-2023)
Sophie Zénon
Photography - 30.5 x 41 cm Photography - 12 x 16.1 inch
$4,488
Livre VII / Glyceria striata (Lam.) Hitchc. (Glycérie striée), 2022, in Herbarium Florum obsidionalium (2021-2023)
Sophie Zénon
Photography - 30.5 x 41 cm Photography - 12 x 16.1 inch
$4,488
Livre VI / Geranium pratense L. (Géranium des prés), 2023, in Herbarium Florum obsidionalium (2021-2023)
Sophie Zénon
Photography - 30 x 41 cm Photography - 11.8 x 16.1 inch
$4,488
Livre V / Gentiana lutea L.(Grande gentiane, Gentiane jaune), 2022, in Herbarium Florum obsidionalium (2021-2023)
Sophie Zénon
Photography - 30.5 x 41 cm Photography - 12 x 16.1 inch
$4,488
Livre III / Crepis sancta subsp. nemausensis (Vill.) Babc.(Crépide de Nîmes, Lagoséris du Gard, Ptérothèque de Nîmes), 2023, in Herbarium Florum obsidionalium (2021-2023)
Sophie Zénon
Photography - 30.5 x 41 cm Photography - 12 x 16.1 inch
$4,488
Livre II / Bunias orientalis L.(Bunias ou Roquette d’Orient), 2021, in Herbarium Florum obsidionalium (2021-2023)
Sophie Zénon
Photography - 30.5 x 41 cm Photography - 12 x 16.1 inch
$4,488
Variations sur la Knautia collina Jord.
Sophie Zénon
Photography - 60 x 150 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$16,828
Gentiana lutea L.
Sophie Zénon
Photography - 137 x 97 x 3 cm Photography - 53.9 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$15,707
Manteau de neige
Sophie Zénon
Sculpture - 134 x 69 x 52 cm Sculpture - 52.8 x 27.2 x 20.5 inch
$22,438
Bunias orientalis L.
Sophie Zénon
Photography - 120 x 97 x 3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
Price upon request
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