Sophie-Gaëlle Martin, or Sofigael M., is a multidisciplinary contemporary French artist, painter, poet, and visual creator.

In the lineage of narrative figuration, her oil paintings - social critiques infused with dark humor - are influenced by pop culture and the graphic codes of the 1970s–1980s.

“Nothing will ever be the same again.”

Through scenes blending surrealism and symbolism, Sofigael M. explores existential anxiety and captures the tipping point of intimate dramas or collective catastrophes.

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Her bitter-sweet graphic narratives, defined by precise lines and vivid, contrasting colors, portray disillusioned characters whose gazes are haunted by tragic events.

Resilient, her heroines and heroes nevertheless always display—despite adversity—that unmistakable, bold, and sensual edge of the late 20th century’s “No Future”.

In the series Les Utopies extrasolaires and the sub-series Nebula Bay, the artist explores dystopian universes inspired by science fiction and cosmology, a kind of contemporary Twilight Zone, where exoticism is merely a deceptive backdrop, hiding the disaster that simmers beneath. Ecology serves as the guiding thread.

In her new series, Fractals under Surreal Constraints, it is a return to Earth. Sophie-Gaëlle Martin examines the human condition and depicts the existential hell of characters on the verge of breaking, trapped in a repetitive daily life and subjected to absurd constraints.