Artist Statement

Fusion of the Possible, Topographie de l’art, April 15 – June 15

2020
Photogrammetry (scans and 3D animation), 120 x 120 cm
Courtesy of Galerie Charlot.

Monades is a series of prints made with 3D scans of the artist’s body, which became the raw material to be digitally sculpted, deconstructed and re-contextualized. Many inspirations have informed this project, such as the concept of the cyborg by Donna J. Haraway, Hans Bellmer’s drawings, Greek Mythology as well as an underlying reflexion on self portrait and the place of the body in the digital world. Captive within the limitations of their own subjectivities, these cyborg/goddesses embody the concept of monade, where each individual is a fragmented mirror of a larger reality. [Source: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/sabrina-ratte-monade-iv]

• Sabrina Ratté is a Canadian artist whose practice includes video, installations, sculptures, audio­visual performances, prints and virtual reality. Mixing analog technologies, photography and 3D animation techniques, her work focuses on the creation of architectures, abstract compositions and surreal landscapes, straddling the fine line between the virtual and the physical realm. She has been nominated for the 2019 Sobey Art Award. Previous Exhibitions: Ellephant (Montreal), Laforet Museum (Japan), Musée National Des Beaux­Arts Du Québec, Dolby (San Francisco), Young Project Gallery (Los Angeles), Whitney Museum Of Art (New York), Galerie Charlot (Paris), Chronus Art Center (Shanghai), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), HEK (Basel), Museum Of The Moving Image (New York), Never Apart (Montreal). https://sabrinaratte.com