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.