Sophie-Gaëlle Martin, or Sofigael M., is a French artist, painter, and draughtswoman.

Her oil paintings, visual narratives blending surrealism and symbolism, are nourished by Pop culture and the graphic codes of the 1970s–1980s. They explore existential vertigo and the pivotal moments that foreshadow tragedies.

“Nothing will ever be the same again.”

The artist captures the tipping point of intimate dramas or collective disasters, when reality cracks and the familiar world slips into an unknown dimension.

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Her bittersweet graphic narratives, with precise lines and tangy and contrasting colors, portray disillusioned characters, their gazes haunted by events that hint at tragedy.

Resilient, her heroines and heroes nevertheless always display, despite adversity, that certain brazen and sexy je-ne-sais-quoi of the No Future spirit of the late 20th century.

In the series Extrasolar Utopias and the sub-series Nebula Bay, the artist explored dystopian universes inspired by science fiction and cosmology, a kind of contemporary Twilight Zone, where exoticism was merely a deceptive backdrop, hiding the catastrophe simmering beneath.

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 brink of collapse, trapped in a repetitive daily life and subjected to absurd constraints.

Unstable acrobats suspended between two worlds, these beings ultimately fracture and tip into an alternative reality.