Sandrine Pelletier

Sandrine Pelletier performs magic with fire. She digs deeply into her personal experience and relationship with the world to imbue matter with life. In her hands, the flames transmogrify forms into fascinating objects and installations. Her works in charcoal, obsidian and glass push the medium to breaking point, simultaneously evoking disappearance and rebirth, frantic survival.

Foreign Accent (the title is borrowed from a Middle Eastern story), arises out of a constant dialogue with Gruyères Castle. Sandrine Pelletier weaves a dense network of associations between her new works and the historic rooms: charcoal responds to terracotta, glass to rock, burnt wood to delicate panelling, ceramics to heavy tapestries, constructing a new future on top of a world gone by.

Curator,
Filipe Dos Santos