Traces, imprints, and memory are Zoé Vayssières’s inspiration. She is a French artist and graduate of ENSAD (The National Superior School of Decorative Arts, Paris) with a Master of Arts including one term at Central Saint Martins (Erasmus exchange, London)....
Read MoreTraces, imprints, and memory are Zoé Vayssières’s inspiration. She is a French artist and graduate of ENSAD (The National Superior School of Decorative Arts, Paris) with a Master of Arts including one term at Central Saint Martins (Erasmus exchange, London). After 15 years working on commissions as art director in the fields of art and fashion, China gave her the chance to focus on sculpture only.
Living between Shanghai and Paris, she does bronzed sculptures. She received several large-scale outdoor commissions in China, including one from the Jing’an International Sculpture Park (Shanghai - She is the only French female artist represented in the park).
As photographers do photography, She does “objectography”. Her father was a photographer, and she grew up with black
and white photographs as wallpaper.
The starting point of her work is always an object, fleeting, forgotten or endangered, a witness to the passing time.
She frames it, molds it, highlights details or secrets and cast it in bronze, to make it timeless. Her inspiration also lies in words, quotations and forgotten names, which she engraves upon bronze. The artist combines embedded text and daily objects to question the selection that our collective memory makes.
