Étude Buste 19, 2021

Sandrine Verdier  

Course

From the Toulouse School of Fine Arts to the company, then from the company to the studio: at 57, she is an artist from Toulouse, mother of two grown children. Inseparable from her life as a woman and her work as an artist, their education shaped her creative path and determined her choices: the stability of a salaried job as an artistic director for twenty years, combined with the regular practice of painting; then freelance graphic designer and teacher, when they began to fly on their own. Finally, a sculptor aware of the need to present her work. The figurative canvases now sleep in a corner of her studio where she has been working with clay for five years.

The murmur of bodies

Her sculpture captures life in the fleetingness of movement. It feeds on the singular history of bodies. Her raw plastic suggests movement, without confining it to a definitive attitude. It offers a path, arouses feelings, but does not impose a narrative. Freed from the canons of formal aesthetics, the tension of a muscle or the prominence of a bone, reveal the confidence of bodies in a carnal freedom springing from matter. Bodies in love, bodies suffering, or distended by motherhood, they tell themselves in intimate fragments, like so many secret stories whispered by light and space.