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

In the lineage of narrative figuration, her oil paintings, social critiques infused with dark humor, draw on 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 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 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.

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