Hugo
Bel

 Hugo Bel was born in Paris in 1990. A graduate of the isdaT in Toulouse in 2016, Hugo Bel has since exhibited at Lieu-Commun during the Le Printemps de septembre festival in Toulouse (2016), at the Festival des Bords de Vire in Normandy (2020), at the frac Occitanie Montpellier (2020), at the Castelet de la prison Saint-Michel in Toulouse (2021), at the CRAC in Sète (2022) and at the Biennale d'Art Comptemporain in Sélestat (2023). In 2022, he won the Prix Georges Coulon awarded by the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Institut de France.

Hugo Bel is a visual artist whose work includes sculptures and site-specific installations using porous materials (plaster, sugar), exploring their random and impermanent dimensions. Time alters the contours of his works, testifying to their intrinsic fragility and echoing the representations of living beings and their environment that they contain. Visitors are invited to discover forms that resist immediate reading, conjuring up a cartography of images that the artist calls ‘a mental landscape’. He sees his sculptures as bridges between human beings, capable of bringing together different eras in the same place. He describes himself first and foremost as a ‘ferryman of images’.