Sophie Coroller

At the beginning of Sophie Coroller's work: the almost impossible quest for material. Aluminum with a section of 6 mm worked in limit resistance, Thai papers almost unobtainable which will have to face a real work of marquetry followed by the test of vegetable baths, slates which can withstand the attack of drills with tangsten wicks, fiberglass and carbon which are only found on the borders of aeronautics, 2 mm diameter pyrex tubes which will have to accept being bent in the heat, polyester layers, carbon and glass tubes which will be placed on a wall by the only grace of a pin.

Also at the beginning of this work: the abandonment of drawing. A postage that will constantly print the search for another trait, in space that one, the desperate desire to leave the support as if to give substance to the expression "free as the air". The abandonment of drawing, the first transgression of limits which imposed a too given body.

Then, once the work has acquired space and relief, question these limits. How long will the rare and expensive material resist? How to cross the base line? Free yourself from earthly laws? Escaping from material constraint by tending towards the most immaterial trait? Compete with limitless air and wondrous non-Euclidean laws? Find the line of flight that will achieve the feat of reaching aerial gravity? This is how the work of Sophie Coroller can be understood: that the body of the world does not weigh.

Sophie Coroller, by Danielle Lambert

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