Vie d’atelier, 2024

The artwork(Vie d’atelier by Sophie Dumont)is available for pickup at BelArt Gallery in Brussels, Belgium, or it can be delivered to the address of your choice within 2 to 3 weeks after your order is confirmed. The artwork is insured during transportation, so there’s no risk. Origin: Belgium.

Sophie Dumont’s work Vie d’Atelier immerses us in an intimate exploration of the creative space. This title, which resonates with the familiarity of artistic everyday life, underlines the complexity and intensity of the place where the works take shape. Through geometric shapes, the artist captures not only the physical layout of a studio, but also the creative process itself, like an assembly of thoughts, sketches and inspirations.

The choice of a subtly contrasting colour palette, mixing warm and cool tones, symbolises the alternation between chaos and order that reigns in any studio. The flat surfaces and nested volumes evoke the canvases in progress, the scattered materials, and the way each element takes its place in a larger whole. Each form seems to have its own story, its own emotional weight, creating a tension between the material and the immaterial.

The work is distinguished by its ability to structure apparent disorder, through a composition where straight lines and angles respond to each other with precision. These elements suggest the rigor of the creative process, an intellectual journey that gradually materializes. The studio then becomes a mental space as much as a physical one, a place where ideas are born, develop and transform into something tangible.

This painting, with its depth of reading, leads us to reflect on the intimate relationship between the artist and his work environment. The viewer is invited to enter this private space, to discover the fragments of a creative universe in perpetual evolution. Vie d’Atelier thus embodies a poetic vision of the act of creation, where each gesture, each object finds its place in the singular rhythm of the artist.

Sophie Dumont succeeds here in transforming the studio into a universal place, where life itself, made of layers and multiple facets, is expressed in a symphony of shapes and colors.