Shoi

Statement

SHOI work is inspired by events that have brutally altered her daily life, which she recreates and exorcizes through multiple metamorphosis, as shows the plastic ambiguity inherent to some of her pieces such as ‘Le jardin de mon corps’ or 'L'être'.  The artist thus solicits the viewer on several levels, be it by means of thought, imagination or affect.

Disquiet
The human body is at the core of Shoi's artistic practice. Her work is characterized by an interrogation about man and nature, being and becoming, and identifies itself with breath, in essence the representation of movement and life. The artist puts in her works a great deal of emotional charge (sickness, stress, anxiety, pain) and frees the body of its cultural weight. This emancipation takes part in the quest for an autonomy that is at the same time physical, sexual, and intellectual, bringing together feminism and experiences lived by the artist. Based on remembrance, emotion, reactivation of memory, Shoi's work follows a subjective logic, making use of every material and every shape. Her language, personal and entirely autobiographical, relates with the practices of, among others, Yayoi Kusama and Giuseppe Penone. Her work is inspired by events that have brutally altered her daily life, which she recreates and exorcizes through multiple metamorphosis, as shows the plastic ambiguity inherent to some of her pieces such as 'Les couilles' or 'L'être'. The artist thus solicits the viewer on several levels, be it by means of thought, imaginationor affect.