Flore Saunois

Flore Saunois is a French artist born in 1987 who lives and works in Marseille.

She graduated from the Universität der Künste Berlin (2012), the Academy of Theatre of Rome (2014), and the Beaux-Arts de Marseille (2018).

In her installations, sculptures, sound pieces, performances and publications, Flore Saunois explores the materiality of language. Borrowing a conceptual vocabulary, she questions the limits of representation by giving her objects a poetic symbolism.

Theater and scenography are reminiscent in Flore’s works. It is quite usual to come across disguised materials in her art: the scagliola seeks to imitate marble. The screw, certainly a common object, becomes attractive while getting dressed with porcelain.

The artist’s practice also investigates the interstices of everyday life and places her works in that in-between space. They are tangible objects of the present, playing with some kind of an evanescent space.

Tinged with metaphysical concepts, her attempt to place the ephemeral in a defined temporality does not deny itself any paradox. In “Playing Card,” the void is sculpted; conversely, in “Precarious Voids” the volume is only suggested.

Her work has been presented in various museums and institutions including : Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fondation Ricard, Paris; France Culture, Radio France; A performance Affair, Brussels; MAC (Musée d’Art Contemporain de Marseille); Institut Français, Hambourg; Collection Lambert, Avignon ; MAMC+ (Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain St-Etienne Métropole); Art-O-Rama (Région Sud Prize winner), Marseille; Manifesta13.

'Carte à jouer, 2020'

image Carte à jouer, 2020
Carte à jouer, 2020

'Faux pli, 2022'

image Faux pli, 2022
Faux pli, 2022

'Sans titre (une chute sans fin), 2018'

image Sans titre (une chute sans fin), 2018
Sans titre (une chute sans fin), 2018

'Sans titre (vides précaires), 2023'

image Sans titre (vides précaires), 2023
Sans titre (vides précaires), 2023