Sophie Giraux is a moulder of poetry. Whether realised through video, projection, sculpture or installation, each of her works is the pure manifestation of its sensorial content. Sometimes at the core is a true story steeped in emotion or nostalgia, others times it is a current contemplation; always, the meaningfulness contained in its expression is ripe, and its physicality, while sound, possesses the patent quality of sheer ephemerality.
A sculpture that begins life as a perfectly formed parallelepiped; the passage of time then leads to its collapse, lending the work a whole new configuration.
During the course of one cycle the projectors continuously search for their focal point, the two rectangles of white light independently shrinking and then enlarging, becoming slightly superimposed at their adjacent edge and for an instant gently achieving an identical size.
A marred reflecting surface makes room for transparency.
Two cubes comprising of densely compacted charcoal powder. One is perfectly formed, the other is partially collapsed due to the force of gravity acting on its weaker constitution once its formwork is removed. Without interference, both structures remain precisely intact.
A fluctuating rectangle of light projected via a motorised wheel attached to the projector, which revolves in front of the lens. The image appears to subtly split away from itself and become reabsorbed.
On the white base of the glass box is the black outline of a single circle; on top of the glass box is a glass lens. Looking onto the lens from above causes chromatic distortion – an optical phenomenon – by which the black line meets the circumference of the lens and therewith transforms into a circular rainbow comprised of the full colour spectrum.
One cube comprising of densely compacted plaster powder, perfectly formed. Without interference, it remains precisely intact.
392 overlaid, digitised, personally significant photographs. Superimposed in this way, these images have become unreadable, creating a black hole or a blindspot, serving to flatten layers of memory. Only the outline discloses a hint as to their subject matter.
A video projection depicting the 365 days of the year in the course of one minute, true to the authentic calendar, including days per month and accounting for leap-years, thus representing a sense of infinite time, accurately compressed.
The projector acts like a ready-made and reveals an optical phenomenon: marginal diffraction (or flare) due to parasitic light diffusion inside the focal mechanism.
A photo produced by photographing light; an abstracted image achieved by filming the instant process of the polaroid that reveals that image.
The existing hexagonal floor tiles have been reproduced as thin plaster wafers and positioned on the floor surface. The more public who visit the space, the shorter-lived the work.