Exhibition: Colourful Satire – Poetic Sculptures and Paintings

Painting, sculpture and poetry, Sofi K.'s offbeat art navigates a colorful and contrasting universe, tinged with humor for a vitamin-packed proposition. A poetic escapade in the land of derision. A few words from the artist: "As a painter and sculptor, I develop a plastic research based on color, form and derision as ways of reading the contemporary world. My canvases, wooden paintings and plaster sculptures create a deliberately saturated, contrasting and expressive universe, where fish and human forms intersect. The figure of the fish, recurrent in my work, acts as a floating symbol: silent, sometimes absurd, it crosses the compositions like a metaphor for our contemporary trajectories, between imposed currents and attempts at freedom. The human figures, stylized or slightly off-beat, extend this reflection by blurring the boundaries between the individual, his environment and the norms that surround him. Humor plays a central role in my work. Inherited from a culture marked by freedom of tone and irreverence, it is neither decorative nor anecdotal. Derision becomes a plastic and critical tool, a way of creating distance from an era that I perceive as saturated with discourse, frameworks and over-intellectualization. Through vivid color and immediate form, the work first addresses the eye, before allowing a second, more sensitive and reflective level of reading to emerge. The short, poetic texts that accompany certain pieces extend this dialogue without seeking to explain, but rather to open up spaces for breathing and reflection. My practice is thus part of an aesthetic of derision, where apparent lightness rubs shoulders with formal and conceptual rigor. Without moralizing, my work invites us to accept the absurd, to step back and rediscover a form of freedom of spirit through humor, color and irony." Visit Maison Caillaud, at the tourist office, from May 18 to 24, 2026.