French artist based in Vienna, Austria, Vethan Sautour works across painting, photography and sculpture. Her multidisciplinary practice investigates the mechanisms through which history, power, and collective memory are constructed, questioning who is remembered, who is erased, and how cultural narratives...
Read MoreFrench artist based in Vienna, Austria, Vethan Sautour works across painting, photography and sculpture. Her multidisciplinary practice investigates the mechanisms through which history, power, and collective memory are constructed, questioning who is remembered, who is erased, and how cultural narratives continue to shape contemporary society.
Recent research focuses on the historical marginalization of women and the systematic erasure of their intellectual, artistic, and political contributions. Drawing connections between Antiquity, the Renaissance, and the present day, the artist examines how censorship, exclusion, and violence have contributed to the disappearance of women's voices from history. Figures such as Aspasia, whose influence on classical philosophy has long remained overshadowed, as well as overlooked women writers, thinkers, and victims of politically or ideologically motivated femicide, become points of departure for a broader reflection on memory, absence, and cultural transmission. Through strategies of omission, fragmentation, symbolism, and poetic narrative, her works invite viewers to consider remembrance as an active, ethical gesture while questioning the ideological structures that determine historical visibility.
Her visual language is informed by a dialogue between the formal rigor of the Florentine Renaissance, the philosophical sensibility of Japanese artistic traditions, and contemporary conceptual practices. Working with a deliberately restrained aesthetic and an economy of means, she creates layered visual environments in which absence itself becomes a material presence, encouraging reflection on the tensions between visibility and invisibility, knowledge and oblivion, power and vulnerability.
Alongside this ongoing research, Vethan Sautour continues to explore the ethical relationships between humans, animals, and the natural world, addressing themes of animal rights, environmental responsibility and the human condition.
Since her first exhibition in Florence in 2018, the artist's work has been exhibited internationally across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the United States. In 2020, she was awarded the Kalos Art Prize.
Her practice continues to develop through interdisciplinary research, positioning art as a space for critical inquiry, cultural memory, and dialogue.
