Beam, 2021
Sofiane Benyahia

Painting : oil

22 x 14 x 2 cm 8.7 x 5.5 x 0.8 inch

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Unique artwork

Signature

Hand-signed by artist

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Dimensions cm inch

22 x 14 x 2 cm 8.7 x 5.5 x 0.8 inch Height x Width x Depth

Framing

Black floater frame

Artwork dimensions including frame

25 x 17 x 4 cm 9.8 x 6.7 x 1.6 inch


Tags

Under Water

Black

Dark blue

Artwork sold in perfect condition, framed, ready to hang

Artwork location: France

It took the artist 56 round trips in 1°C water to create this painting at Lac du Lou in Val Thorens
50 cm under the inverted ice at an altitude of 2000 meters
This captivating work is much more than an underwater art performance beneath the ice. It embodies the ephemeral fusion of bold art and the delicate fragility of our icy environment. In a striking feat, I paint upside down under the ice while holding my breath, symbolizing the fleeting nature of creation in the face of the inevitable melting of this frozen world. Beyond its visual beauty, this performance evokes the vulnerability of our ecosystems. Each year, the progressive melting of the ice underscores climate change and threatens our precious high-altitude freshwater sources. In 2021, the ice was 70 cm thick; in 2022, during this performance, it was 50 cm; and as the years go by, it will become increasingly impossible to recreate this type of performance under the ice. This work resonates as a poignant call to preserve these frozen mountain oases, highlighting the vital importance of protecting our environment in the face of growing climate instability. By contemplating this artistic representation, we are invited to meditate on the delicate union between art, our environment, and the imperative need to preserve these fragile ecosystems for future generations.

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Bam Art Gallery • France

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Sofiane Benyahia, Beam
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Sofiane Benyahia (born in 1985, France) is a visual artist who practices freediving. His work explores the depths of human consciousness through the lens of the marine world. A former submariner in the French Navy, he traded the steel hull for bare skin: from a closed world to one of suspended breath.

His unique practice unites painting, dance, and underwater photography, all created while freediving. Each gesture is limited by the duration of a breath: a vital constraint that becomes a space for creation. Underwater, matter escapes all control: the paint dilutes, the light diffracts, the body becomes a trace. The artist no longer dominates—he breathes with the world.

Influenced by Carl Jung, Wassily Kandinsky, and contemporary ecological thought, his work explores the link between humans and living things, between the visible and the invisible. Water becomes a symbol of the collective unconscious and a place of transmutation: a space where the boundaries of the self dissolve to allow an expanded awareness of life to emerge.

“Creating underwater is about experiencing the permeability between inside and outside. It's about recognizing that life is movement, and that breath is its universal language." – Sofiane Benyahia

Through his performances and exhibitions, Sofiane Benyahia develops an aesthetic of breath, where vulnerability becomes the beating heart of beauty. His work invites us to transform our perspective: to see the marine world not as a backdrop, but as a living, sensitive, and sacred subject.

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