For her second solo exhibition at LooLooLook Gallery, after Bleu in 2023, Sophie Bloch continues her research around ultramarine blue. In Reliefs, paint brings forth shifting landscapes, between wave, mineral mass and imaginary mountain.
Blue is no longer merely a colour. It becomes a depth, a material, a movement. With Reliefs, Sophie Bloch explores the possibilities of ultramarine blue and its capacity to transform the pictorial surface into a sensitive space. Through gesture, superimposition and the working of matter, paint rises up, hollows out, spreads. Lines appear, undulations form, masses take shape.
The image does not reveal itself immediately. It is discovered gradually, as the gaze moves through variations of light, the rhythms and densities of the surface.
Through this research, the artist invites us to experience landscape differently: not as a view to be recognised, but as an experience to inhabit.
The series Vagues, Ondes, Mégalithes and Cimes trace different stages of a single metamorphosis.