Profile

French-Canadian artist Sophie Manessiez lives and works in Quebec. Trained in visual arts and communications, she began her career in events before turning fully to ceramics in 2007. She trained over the years in various workshops in France and Quebec, and in 2021 obtained a diploma in fine craft techniques – ceramics in Montreal.
Her work explores the tensions between uniformity and singularity, between the fragility of life and the strength of connections. Through installations composed of porcelain modules, she constructs sensitive networks where each element asserts its own identity while contributing to a coherent whole. Inspired by the gestures of wire art, she infuses porcelain, a material that is simultaneously supple, rigid, light, and brittle, with a new fluidity.
Her works evoke matter, light, and memory: matter as a language, light as a revealer of delicacy, memory as a trace of the gestures, connections, and interconnections of life. Exhibited in Canada, the United States and France, and an active member of the Conseil des métiers d’art du Québec, Sophie Manessiez conducts artistic research that is at once personal, collective and profoundly poetic.