SOFIE FÉKÉTÉ

Mixed media

My hungarian origins, english upbringing and total immersion in french canadian culture have made me a very inquisitive person always on the lookout for the new, always in search for new characteristics of people and places. In this intertwined manner , my art practice has evolved in a constant shift in creation processes moving at ease from costume designing to site-specific painting and to video clips.

The starting point of all my realizations relies on the belief that all acquisition of knowledge comes primarily from experience, the sensation of touch being the first mode of individual emotions and first expression of desires since our earliest stages.

My work is more about intervention in time and space than about the making of art objects. Otherwise my personal search into reality, as defined by a constant change, does not aim transgression but openness. Also my interventions are often self proposed for their accomplishment requests an ephemeral and spontaneous approach. In my sense, art work becomes synonymous of adventure.

So what is this body all about? Body in nature, body in a crowd, body in the city. Beyond all theoretical evaluation, I am looking for closeness and complicity (confrontation) with my project participants. The resulting figures, are neither an anatomical nor an allegorical manifestation, but a transcription that combines documentation and illusion. Here and there precision of the material world meets the undetermined of the imagined. A provocation of inner spaces situated in space.

In photography, I try to recreate aesthetic environments by painting all space ( walls and furniture ) and people (the skin and hair ), my collaborators being usually very ordinary people. In my last series of photos instead of paint I am using flower dust that encrusts my models, dust symbolizing here the leveling out of all identities in a media controlled society. Can the detextualized and recontextualized body be honest?

What are the different energies that cross the body? The gravitational? The electric? The system of inner organs? How do we realize ourselves and understand the "other" in an acceptance of plurality? I am not looking for essence of human or beauty . My practice wants to investigate the world around me looking obsessively for residual images with revelatory faculties, trying to put in relation unidentified forces that do not want to be understood.