Sophie Varin questions our relationship with reality, and how it is often a matter of negotiating between what we would like to see and what we would prefer to keep hidden. Illustrating seemingly banal everyday scenes, her work depicts ambiguous scenarios where apparent familiarity shows its grimacing face.
Passionate about adaptability and imitation techniques, Sophie Varin likes to think about her characters' ability to succeed - or fail - in understanding the context in which they find themselves. Her paintings and sculptures place great importance on the gaze of the observer, the witness, the audience - particularly the way in which curiosity, desire and fantasy have the capacity to alter what we look at. This distorted gaze, too eager to remain rational, projects so many blurred scenarios onto reality.
Alongside her work as a painter and sculptor, Sophie Varin writes detective novels, starring the character J.P Gutti.
Sophie Varin interroge notre rapport Ă la rĂ©alitĂ© et comment il sâagit souvent de nĂ©gocier entre ce que lâon voudrait voir et ce que lâon prĂ©fĂ©rerait garder cachĂ©. Illustrant des scĂšnes quotidiennes en apparence banales, son travail dĂ©peint des scĂ©narios ambigus oĂč lâapparente familiaritĂ© montre son visage grimaçant.
PassionnĂ©e par les capacitĂ©s dâadaptation et les techniques dâimitation, elle aime songer aux aptitudes de ses personnages Ă rĂ©ussir â ou Ă©chouer â Ă comprendre le contexte dans lequel ils se trouvent. Ses peintures et ses sculptures donnent une grande importance au regard de lâobservateur, du tĂ©moin, du public â plus particuliĂšrement Ă la maniĂšre dont la curiositĂ©, le dĂ©sir et le fantasme ont la capacitĂ© de modifier ce que lâon regarde. Ce regard dĂ©formĂ©, trop avide pour rester rationnel, projette autant de scĂ©narios brouillĂ©s sur le rĂ©el.
En parallĂšle de sa pratique de peintre et de sculptrice, Sophie Varin Ă©crit des romans policiers dont le personnage J.P Gutti est la vedette.