Sophie
Eymond

“The fragility of the human being disturbs me,” says Sophie Eymond. The artist combines traditional and contemporary approaches, innovatively juxtaposes different materials and investigates new ways of conceptually understanding sculpture. In particular, she manages to infuse her artwork with a great tenderness and intimacy, an enigmatic poetry and magic that evoke wonder. Eymond often combines (embroidered) textiles with plaster and/or polyester molds. This creates plastic forms, sculptural bodies, sometimes anthropomorphic, but always charged with meaning. “Fabric has this strong ability to express breakability in an extraordinary way!” the artist points out. “It is a totally paradoxical material: poor, banal, ordinary (not to say obvious), but it is also rich, delicate, subtle, essential, pure, protective, personal and best of all: intimate!” Eymond likes to use old sheets, textiles that tell a story that is readable only up to a certain point and that evoke an emotional and personal value. This gives his sculptures, often captured in moments of introspective recollection, an added sense of humanity and vulnerability. This is psychic rather than intellectual work, the artist insists, although of course there is always a vision behind it. “I have to do it to express, perceive and understand through matter.”