Sophie-Gaëlle Martin
• EXTRASOLAR UTOPIAS •
Contemporary narrative art • Surrealism • Oil painting

70s & 80s
A child of Generation X, Sophie-Gaëlle Martin, or Sofigael M., is a French visual artist, painter and designer.
Her bittersweet graphic stories, marked by clean lines and pop colors reminiscent of 1970s and 80s design, portray disillusioned characters, their gazes haunted by adventures whose tragic nature we can only imagine.
Through surreal scenes with an illusory lightness, the artist explores the liminal state - those peaceful moments and unconscious stillness just before the tragedy strikes.
Extrasolar utopias
An amateur cosmologist raised on sci-fi and fascinated by space and quantum physics, the artist - a lover of long journeys and tropical environments - pushes exoticism to the extreme in her extrasolar worlds bursting with electric color.


The art of the end of the world
Danger is present, catastrophe is imminent, the drama is unfolding. Tsunamis or drought, alien invasions, plane crashes at the end of a holiday, or hidden threats - prowlers and rapists lurking: moments of relaxation or tenderness are always fragile, fleeting, suspended. The threat looms.
Endangered by the cataclysms they’ve triggered themselves - or more prosaically, by ordinary tragedies and the invisible dangers of daily life - her heroines and heroes still exude, despite adversity, that decadent and sexy je-ne-sais-quoi of the late 20th century’s “No Future” spirit.
And yet, for them, it is the end of the world - an intimate or radical ending, but an ending nonetheless. The end of a world. The one they called home.
