Insomnia Painting

Child of Generation X, Sophie-Gaëlle Martin, or Sofigael M., is a visual artist from the Paris region - painter and illustrator - born in 1974 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, on France’s Opal Coast. SURREALISM & CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVE ART The artist grew up during the Disco, New Wave, and Punk explosion, with a soundtrack ranging from The Supremes and The Alan Parsons Project to Blondie, Depeche Mode, and David Bowie. Her bittersweet graphic stories, marked by clean lines and pop colors reminiscent of 1970s-80s design, depict disillusioned characters, their haunted gazes hinting at tragic, untold adventures. Through surreal scenes with an illusory lightness, the artist explores liminality - those peaceful, unaware moments just before tragedy strikes. EXTRASOLAR UTOPIAS A self-taught cosmologist raised on science fiction and deeply fascinated by space and quantum physics, the artist - an avid traveler and lover of tropical landscapes - pushes the notion of exoticism to its limits in her electrified extrasolar worlds. THE ART OF THE END OF THE WORLD The danger is present, catastrophe is imminent, the drama is coming. Tsunami or drought, alien invasion, a plane crash at the end of a holiday, or unseen threats lurking - rapists, prowlers, disasters waiting to happen: even moments of calm or tenderness are fragile, fleeting, and suspended. The threat always looms. Endangered by cataclysms of their own making - or more prosaically, by the quiet tragedies and invisible dangers of daily life - her heroines and heroes still carry that decadent, sexy je-ne-sais-quoi of the late 20th century’s “No Future” vibe. Yet for them, it truly is the end of the world - whether intimate or radical - an ending nonetheless. The end of a world. The one they called home.