Sophie Bueno-Boutellier
Sophie Bueno-Boutellier was born in 1974 in Toulouse. She lives and works in Marseille (FR).
Sophie Bueno-Boutellier is best known for her minimal installations of seemingly disparate objects, connected by voids and silences. These assemblages are built through a precise working method that begins with the collection and meticulous selection of materials and objects, culminating in a careful process of arrangement, rearrangement, fabrication, and refabrication. The delicacy— a physical manifestation of a perpetual introspective and existential questioning— of Sophie Bueno-Boutellier’s installations explores the multiplicity of meanings, both personal and universal, that these objects are capable of evoking or representing.
Sophie Bueno-Boutellier is also a painter. Her abstract works, mainly created on jute canvas, tend to reflect the intense labor invested in her installations—the canvases are worked and produced directly on the floor, resulting from a physical, repetitive, and intuitive performative process, guided by the structure of the material itself. They are both surface and form. Previously integrated into her sculptural environments, Sophie Bueno-Boutellier’s paintings have gained greater autonomy in recent years.
Sophie Bueno-Boutellier studied at Villa Arson, Nice, in the early 2000s and has had numerous opportunities to exhibit her work in France and abroad. She is represented by The Approach in London and Freymond-Guth Fine Art in Basel and New York. Her recent solo exhibitions include Le Don de Gaïa (2017) at The Approach, La ritournelle du peuple des cuisines at Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, They sing a song only you can hear at The Approach; Let me steal this moment from you now at Freymond-Guth (2013), C’est à crier tellement c’est bleu at Circus, Berlin (2012); and Pensée Sauvage at Kunstverein Langenhagen (2011).
She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including White Noise at Kunsthaus Glarus and Rotrixagatze at On Stellar Rays, New York (2015), DIZIONARIO DI PITTURA at Francesca Minini, Milan, and Occupy Painting, curated by Max Henry at Autocenter, Berlin (2014). In 2012, she took part in Archéologie(s), curated by Aurélie Voltz at the Musée du Château des Ducs de Wurtemberg in Montbéliard, and The Possessed at Triangle France, Marseille.
