From 27.04 to 18.05, L'ahah presents a research and exhibition project bringing together curator and art critic Diane Der Markarian and artist Sophie Blet.

Sophie Blet's sculptures, images and installations shake up our perceptions, probing the confusion born of exploring the multiple dimensions of reality and the tenuousness of their boundaries. Her work in the visual arts is developed through a variety of media, maintaining and continuing regular dialogues with other researchers, in which our apprehension of the real shifts from perceived space to an uncertain, as yet undetermined space.

“I'm tempted to guess that the artist's satisfaction is akin to that of the Zen master who, by setting traps for the public, incites them to a virtuous, even enlightening dizziness” (Jacques Perkins Martin, extract from the text written for the exhibition). The exhibition will also take the form of a book produced in collaboration with Marius Astruc.

→ Diane Der Markarian is an independent art critic and curator and a member of AICA-France. She is operational manager for the Micro-Folie scheme supported by the Ministry of Culture and coordinated by La Villette in Paris. A graduate of the University of Aix-Marseille, the École du Louvre and Sciences Po Paris, she studied both in Switzerland and Canada, and wrote her dissertation on a monograph by Israeli artist Michal Rovner (1957-). A member of the Jeunes Critiques d'Art collective from 2016 to 2021, she co-founded the YACI - International Young Art Criticism confederation in 2019. She has worked for various organisations in France and Europe (Fondation des Treilles, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain Saint-Étienne Métropole, Fondation Guido Molinari).

→ Sophie Blet lives and works in Marseille. After her art history degree, she studied Fine Art in Monaco (Pavillon Bosio, Masters in Art & Set Design) and Fine Art in Leipzig (HGB, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst - Masters and Post-Grad). Her work has been shown in a number of group and solo exhibitions including at the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Saint Etienne (MAMC+), Centre d'Art de la Graineterie in Houilles, Art-Cade Gallery in Marseille, the 22,48m2 Gallery in Paris, Art dans les Chapelles at the Observatoire in Nice, Passage de Retz in Paris (Artagon), Galerie Bipolar in Leipzig, HGB Gallery in Leipzig, Open-School Gallery at Beaux-Arts in Nantes, Fondation Vasarely in the Château de Servières, Marseille and soon at L'ahah in Paris. Her first monograph, ‘Pas tout à fait vides, peut-être juste impossibles’, will be published as part of her exhibition at L'ahah.