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Almine Rech

Sasha Ferré

Sasha Ferré's paintings respond to nature not by seeking to depict it but to let it be felt.
The artist lives in the gap between landscapes and abstraction, where she unfolds a world of foliage, waves, flames and corals that we can no longer see but would once more need to touch.

"Sasha Ferré does not see her paintings. Or at least she cannot see them when she is working: her hands are full of colours, she is fully immersed in the act of blending oils and caressing the material she handles. Sasha Ferré does not see her paintings, and yet she only works in the daytime as she craves natural light. From what she told me about her creative process, my understanding is that she performs a sort of daytime ritual which consists of coating the surface of a linen canvas with an initial layer of coloured tempera before covering the background with greasy pigmented matter. Issues of depth, and therefore dimensions, are already at stake. All of her work must take place in the space of a day - a rule dictated by the physical properties of oil paint, which also gives Sasha Ferré’s work a conceptual nature (the canvas as unity of time). Her ritual is soundtracked by music, and you can’t help but feel compelled to imagine what beats and melodies may have sounded across the studio while the artist was composing her latest works".

—  Cédric Fauq

Selected artworks

  • Sasha Ferré, Is that an attitude for a flower, 2024

    Sasha Ferré Is that an attitude for a flower, 2024

    Oil stick and tempera on wood panel
    160 x 130 cm
    63 x 51 in

  • Sasha Ferré, How sweet the night became then, 2024

    Sasha Ferré How sweet the night became then, 2024

    Oil stick and tempera on wood panel
    160 x 130 x 5 cm
    63 x 51 x 2 in

  • Sasha Ferré, In the days of better rainfall, 2023

    Sasha Ferré In the days of better rainfall, 2023

    Oil stick and tempera on canvas
    200 x 120 cm (each)
    78 1/2 x 47 in (each)

  • Sasha Ferré, Was it the wind that spoke?, 2023

    Sasha Ferré Was it the wind that spoke?, 2023

    Tempera and oil stick on linen

    200 x 120 cm

    78 1/2 x 47 in 

  • Sasha Ferré, Vita Nova, 2023

    Sasha Ferré Vita Nova, 2023

    Oil stick and tempera on wood panel
    100 x 120 cm
    39 1/2 x 47 in

  • Sasha Ferré, Closer and closer to the ground, 2023

    Sasha Ferré Closer and closer to the ground, 2023

    Oil stick and tempera on canvas
    275 x 200 cm
    108 1/2 x 78 1/2 in

  • Sasha Ferré, Where we are now, 2023

    Sasha Ferré Where we are now, 2023

    Oil stick and tempera on wood panel
    155.9 x 130.2 cm
    61 1/2 x 51 1/2 in

  • Sasha Ferré, And the sun can never burn through it, 2023

    Sasha Ferré And the sun can never burn through it, 2023

    Oil stick and tempera on canvas
    200 x 160 cm
    78 1/2 x 63 in

Gallery exhibitions

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