Anne Cecile Surga

I am searching the spectrum of the personal and the emotional, and how our contemporary consumerist society affects the way we live, feel and develop the notion of the selves.

I am interested in how human continue to be true to their core in this environment despite the daily violence it obliges us to face and to commit to other. My works can be understood as elaborations of emotional reactions to societal issues.

I often use myths as my primary support: I question and I twist them in order to extract the intrinsic meaning they are caring within themselves into the contemporary society. I try to express the myths in innovative ways in order to open up a new discussion about a topic.

As a woman, my work is reflective of the distinctive challenges that I face in my private life, and I believe it shines a light and a commentary on societal issues that are inherent of our time.

I decided to pursue my inquiry into identity through the specific lens of Trauma, whether it being physical, emotional or psychological. I am exploring how it affects one or more persons, and which strategies of survival can be found.

2013
Art Students League, New York, USA
Ecorché and Welding

Christie's Education New York, NYC, USA
Master in Modern and Contemporary Art, Art History, Criticism and Conservation

2010
Master in Business Administration, concentration in Management
Florida Gulf Coast University, Florida, USA

2008
Ateliers Michel Fontenille, Dijon, France
Clay Sculpture

2006
Académie Libre des Beaux-Arts Jacques Stanislas Rincon, Tarascon sur Ariège, France
Basis of drawing and painting, composition, perspective, theory of color, human anatomy, etc

Solo Shows
2018
Scriptures » Elaboratory, Paris, France

2016
“Il ne Fallait Pas me Créer Libre », Galerie des Carmes, Pamiers, France

Group Shows

2018
« Salon Arbustes » Mantes-La-Jolie, France
”VII Bienal Internacional de Escultura Valle de los Sueños” Puebla de la Sierra, Spain
« La Poétique des Matériaux » Espace Bourdelle, Montauban, France
« Unspoken » We are Sweet Art, Londres, UK
“WAR: Quello que Rimane” Metamorfosi Gallery, Vicenza, Italie
« Talents de Femmes » Foix, France
“Festival de la Sculpture de Bressuire” Verger des Sculpteurs, Bressuire, France
“Art Rooms” London, UK

2017
“YICCA 2017” Roma, Italy
“CHUNK3” curated by Team Caef, Brescia, Italy
“Chester Art Fair” selected as part of the Visual Art Open finalists, Chester, UK
Paratissima, Turino, Italy
“Salon d’Automne” selected as part of the Grand Prix Arbuste, Paris, France
“Somos Il-limitades” FemArt, Ca la Dona, Barcelona, Spain
“Salon Arbustes” Mantes-la-Jolie, France
“Setba Jove” Fundacion Setba, Barcelona, Spain
« Biennale Interactive de Sculpture Contemporaine en Bourgogne, » Nolay, France
« Talents de Femmes,» Foix, France
“23ieme Festival d’Art Actuel – L’Art dans l’Orne” Ecouches-les-Vallees Seran, France
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