Sofigael M

Child of Generation X, Sophie-Gaëlle Martin, or Sofigael M., is a visual artist from the Paris region - painter and illustrator - born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, on France’s Opal Coast.

SURREALISM AND CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVE ART

Through surreal scenes with a deceptively lighthearted tone, I depict existential anxiety and narrate the liminal state, the suspended moment and the unconsciousness that surround tragedy. I freeze the tipping point of intimate dramas or major catastrophes and narrate the passage between two worlds: the moment when our universe cracks and plunges us into an unknown dimension.

TANGY WORLDS ON THE EDGE

I grew up in the middle of the Disco, New Wave and Punk wave, to the soundtrack of The Supremes, The Alan Parsons Project, Blondie, Depeche Mode or David Bowie, and in front of the images of early films by Steven Spielberg, Wes Craven or Robert Zemeckis. The energy, boldness and artistic richness that define this era are for me, inevitably, an inexhaustible source of inspiration.

My bittersweet visual narratives, with precise lines and intense, contrasting colours, typical of 1970s and 1980s Pop culture and design, portray disillusioned characters whose eyes are haunted by adventures that we sense as tragic. Resi...

Passionate about drawing from a very young age, Sophie-Gaëlle Martin studied at the Fine Arts School of her hometown as a teenager, as well as photography courses.

After obtaining a Master’s degree in Applied Economics and a postgraduate in Business Management and Development, she returned to graphic design and photography while working in visual and digital communication in Paris. In 2024, she resumed her studies in graphic design in order to devote herself entirely to the visual arts.

Her work has already been recognised internationally and rewarded with a finalist position at the Tartget Painting Prize 2025. She also received the Luxembourg Art Prize certificate of artistic merit twice, in 2024 and 2025.

Group Exhibition "A Bit of Men" - March 31, 2025 - May 30, 2025

Le Cube Coworking Montalivet, 25 Boulevard du Front de Mer, 33930 Vendays-Montalivet - FRANCE