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cv apolonia.sokol@gmail.com born 1988 origins: danmark - poland- france_ based in paris andersen's contemporary . copenhagen the pill . istanbul current : i have trouble sleeping, but she said she loved me , soloshow, the pill, istanbul / 25.05.2018 - 31.07.2018 upcoming : mademoiselle , groupshow, crac occitanie, sete, france / curator: tara londi cca andrax residency, mallorca, spain past : salle de pas-perdus, le doc, paris / curator: michel francois & richard venlet one long changing body* , groupshow, carlier gebauer, berlin j'aime , groupshow, galerie henri chartier, lyon / curator: marion bataillard i am what i am , groupshow, ici.gallery, paris / curator: julie crenn tainted love , groupshow, confort moderne, france / curator: yann chevalier/ december 16 - march 4 révélations emerige , groupshow, prize, villa Émérige, paris / curator : gaël charbau / opening november 7 surreal house , groupshow, the pill, istanbul/ curator: suela cennet conference: her story, centre contemporain d'art malakoff / curator: julie creen & pascal lievre peindre dit--elle #2 , groupshow, musée des beaux-arts de dole, france / curator: julie crenn, anabelle teneze and amélie lavin quatrième sexe , groupshow, galerie le coeur , paris / curator: marie maertens / opening 26th-jan 6pm / until 25th feb 2017 heartbreak hotel , soloshow, galerie dutko, paris / opening oct 13 - 5-9pm_ showing until end of november toute premiere fois , groupshow, 22 visconti, paris / opening oct 16th 3-8 pm, curated by armelle leturcq & francesca napoli matin, midi, soir , honorévisconti, paris / opening september 14th, curated by laure flammarion sabbath . soloshow . andersen's contemporary, copenhagen / opening june 23rd berlin est , groupshow . gad paris, 18 rue des cascades / opening june 9th walker evans / , attic, brussels . march/april 2016 process is desire , whitcher projects, los angeles, curated by isabelle le normand courtesy of the artist and the pill / credit emma burlet i have trouble sleeping but she said she loved me the pill is thrilled to announce ’s first solo show in istanbul. a young dark-haired woman wearing a white blouse and red skirt lies on a sofa in an unnatural position; her body appears to be dislocated like a puppet’s. behind the sofa stands another thick-haired woman who seems to be there to keep an eye on the former, in a threatening rather than caring way, just like a skulker or the incubus in johann heinrich füssli’s le cauchemar (the nightmare). the young women who inhabit the paintings of occupy an unusual place in which an angular and closed geometry appears. this might seem to restrict them, but it also provides a safe harbor, and one can see how truthful perspectives, flat-covered walls, and sharp edges eventually provide a reassuring framework. in that respect, these women hold contradictory positions: strong and fragile or decided but uncertain. they find refuge in a supportive womanhood holding tightly on to each other; their hieratic and erotic bodies intermixed. both sisters and lovers, they fell peacefully asleep like kittens nestled in a litter. these are the contemporary women, and at the same time, they are timeless as they bring back the memories of other young ladies, avignon or the banks of the seine. they are mixed-race, they do not belong to any particular nation, and they search for an “ideal” place in this world. their beauty is as the beauty of ancient goddesses and what they appear to be telling us is that we think we possess them, but they do not belong to us. warriors at rest, they are capable of great achievements. they may seem untouchable, but they are lost in love, and, in that sense, they are waiting for love in this confined dramatic and mental space, which is also their workspace. they wait for an inspiration to strike. thus comes a touch of pensive melancholy out of their eyes. these women are in all directions at the same time. they dream and escape surreptitiously through windows. a painting being like a window makes it possible to envision a world that generates hope, a bright future. i had trouble sleeping, but she said she loved me... a fragment of a stolen poem (poems are written to be stolen) lends its name to the first solo exhibition of at the pill gallery. an excerpt, like fragments of paint that appears here and there in the backgrounds of the paintings... ghostly faces, furtive thoughts, heady memories of beautiful encounters appear as flashes and gaps in the night of this artist’s studio, where a young woman is experiencing thousands of things, doubts, bright ideas with a multitude of loving sisters in her thoughts while painting. and that is what sokol distills day after day and night after night in these portraits, where the events of her own life flow. then we are reminded of that great sentence in henry james’s short story “the middle years”: “we work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. the rest is the madness of art.” richard leydier 2018 the night _ 2018 . oil on linen, - 360 × 163 cm courtesy of the artist and the pill photo: ridvan bayrakoglu exhibition view: i have trouble sleeping but she said she loved me >>>>> the pill, istanbul /2018 courtesy of the artist and the pill photo: ridvan bayrakoglu echo & narcisse _ 2018 . oil on linen, 300 × 150 cm courtesy of the artist and the pill photo: ridvan bayrakoglu exhibition view: i have trouble sleeping but she said she loved me >>>>> the pill, istanbul /2018 courtesy of the artist and the pill photo: ridvan bayrakoglu marine_ 2018. oil on linen, 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in - 195 × 114 cm courtesy of the artist and the pill photo: ridvan bayrakoglu nout_ 2018. oil on linen, 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in - 195 × 114 cm courtesy of the artist and the pill photo: ridvan bayrakoglu odessa_ 2018. oil on linen, 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in - 195 × 114 cm courtesy of the artist and the pill photo: ridvan bayrakoglu dina_ 2016. oil on linen, 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in - 195 × 114 cm courtesy of the artist and the pill photo: ridvan bayrakoglu salome_ 2017. oil on linen, 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in - 195 × 114 cm courtesy of the artist and the pill photo: ridvan bayrakoglu anouk_ 2018. oil on linen, 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in - 195 × 114 cm courtesy of the artist and the pill photo: ridvan bayrakoglu bonni-cenni _ 2017. oil on linen, 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in - 195 × 114 cm courtesy of the artist and the pill photo: ridvan bayrakoglu ines _ 2018. oil on linen, 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in - 195 × 114 cm courtesy of the artist and the pill photo: ridvan bayrakoglu ______________________________________________ read on sokol in http://www.lemagazinedouble.com/ photo: marie déhé favourite shoes: vava dudu pieta _ 2016 . oil on linen, 195 x 228 cm courtesy the artist and carlier | gebauer. photo : trevor good. portia _ 2017. oil on linen, 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in - 195 × 114 cm courtesy the artist and carlier | gebauer. photo : trevor good one long changing body* >> carlier| gebauer_ 2018 courtesy the artist and carlier | gebauer. photo : trevor good. beaux arts magazine one long changing body* >> carlier| gebauer_ 2018 courtesy the artist and carlier | gebauer. photo : trevor good. suzannes _ 2018 . oil on linen, 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in - 195 × 114 cm courtesy the artist and carlier | gebauer. photo : trevor good duo piece: azzedine saleck & echho & narcisse >> she said what she said was she said _ 2017 raw bee wax; cotton, metal, painting oil on linen // painting: 300 x 150 cm >> vice par ingrid luquet gad la peinture est une affaire de groupe. de tribus, de familles, d’entourages. la peinture, ou une certaine peinture figurative du moins, celle dont on garde une image romantique séculaire et qui a élu le portrait comme ultime moyen d’expression. chez , l’idée de collectif perdure. d’abord parce que ses sujets sont forcément issus de son entourage, transposant sur la toile les affinités électives et électriques des rencontres. amis, amants, belles âmes de passage : tous se retrouvent traités en pied à l’échelle 1, seul ou par paire, où l’on croit reconnaître ici la pose du pape d’el greco, là une rugosité nerveuse échappée d’un tableau otto dix. mais cette bande recomposée, c’est aussi le résultat de la traversée subjective de l’histoire de son médium qu’entreprend l’artiste, peintre avant tout, créant des alliances improbables et contre-nature où giorgio morandi noue connaissance elisabeth peyton, et kerry james marshall se prend d’amitié pour albert oehlen. loin d’une hybridation post-moderne, réaffirme la position du sujet, d’un moi triomphant qui parcourt le monde et agrège dans le sillage de ce corps-à-corps avec la matière brute du réel une matière brute retenant sans distinction l’histoire de l’art, la pop culture, l’émotion pré-langagière et les accidents sans qualité du quotidien. s’il a beaucoup été question dans les années 1980 du « tribalisme » d’une génération de peintres entre new york et cologne, l’ère présente se redéfinit à l’aune du sujet. non pas qu’il faille y voire le triomphe du néolibéralisme et de sa célébration de l’individualisme, mais au contraire, une reconquête de l’esprit de groupe qui passerait d’abord par l’affirmation de sa position propre. ainsi, si les stéréotypes sont légion dans les portraits d’, ils ne sont que costumes, que l’on endosse ponctuellement sans s’y perdre : la muse, le modèle, la sorcière, l’amante, la sainte, les figures mythologiques, incarnés tantôt par l’artiste, tantôt par ses proches – n’hésitant pas à se mettre elle-même en scène dans son atelier, posant devant ses toiles, afin de souligner encore un peu plus cette réversibilité. et avec la fluidité innée de sa génération, passée maître dans l’exercice de la déhiérarchisation autant des sources que des identités, conjuguer au féminin et au pluriel la figure du grand artiste dans son atelier. >> jeunes critiques d'art _____________________________ read tomorrow mag , nyc >> medee, 2016 . oil on linnen . 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in . 195 × 114 cm vampire, 2016 . oil on linnen . 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in hecate, 2016 . oil on linnen . 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in . 195 × 114 cm read on sokol in antidote: ►►► le monde ►►►taf mag carnivorous and haunted. ▼▼▼ in 1890 maurice denis encouraged artists to "remember that a painting, before being a battle horse, a nude woman, or some anecdote" was "essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order". the 20th century painting, in large part, decided that the essence of painting was elsewhere than in the images, and often renounced them. but there was a misunderstanding (the fact that this misunderstanding has, from kandinsky to mondrian, rothko and newman, produced absolute wonders, does not change the case): images continue to obsess painters, and will no doubt continue to do so for a long time to come. can one reasonably argue that it is inessential , for a figurative painter, to choose the representation of a woman rather than that of a horse? this would mean that the subject of the image outweighs the thousand meanings which any image carries... no woman, and, as far as one can speculate, no horse, would obviously accept this idea. the painted images, to speak only of those, are always both material (pigments, binders, a surface) and memory (the memory of all of our lives), linked to a specific alchemy, that of the mad ones who persist in sheltering their desire of the world within these few square centimeters (or square meters) of cloth that we call paintings. controls in an admirable way, despite her young age, the alchemy in question. her paintings are most often portraits of her entourage; however we would be wrong in seeing them only as episodes in a chronicle of our time, snapshots of paris, los angeles, new york or brussels. behind the effigy of a young woman in the bath, you sense, as you would guess the hidden foundations of a building, a film by buster keaton, but also david's the death of marat, bonnard’s bathtubs, and even the venuses of the renaissance. behind the silhouette of an artist, the admirable pose of the teacher in blackboardby winslow homer, behind petit peintre , the touching astonishment of the boy in a child with a teetotum , by chardin... the most commonplace of scenes, in the lens of the eye and the hand of , are loaded with the the full thickness of a memory, the intact recollection of hundreds of images that inhabit the artist's head. even the abstract background of the paintings seem to conceal phantoms. "there's a woman under there," would have exclaimed the protagonists of the unknown masterpiece (the short story of balzac that depicts a painter so enamored of his model that he ends up creating a pandemonium of lines from which emerges with the miraculous grace of an apparition, the perfect image of a single body part). with , it is on that note often literally true that there is "a woman under there". many of her paintings have been re-painted on canvases, unfinished or discarded, which continue to appear through the finished compositions - needless to say, these paintings more often depict women than horses, and it is not just a matter of epoch… in the figure gallery of sokol we find a young new yorker whose body is covered in tattoos: the lovers of painting will immediately recognize a nod to the painting by otto dix, zuleika, the tattooed wonder, or portrait of egon erwin by christian schad. but others will see, simply, and no less precisely, the delicate image of a young man, as one can meet many today, which does exist, and who has decided to make his body a sort of private museum. there are a lot of tattooed models in the work of , and it's undoubtedly not a coincidence. the popularity of tattooing is universal today, or nearly so, and it happens to be contemporary with the massive dissemination of digital images on touch screens and mobile phones; as if the instinct of young people, who are the main consumers of these smooth and fleeting images, caused them to powerfully embody certain figures or certain motifs by engraving them forever on their bodies. the fury of painting of belongs precisely to this time where images are endangered by their abundance, their fluidity and their disembodiment. the project of the artist, deliberate or not, is to give flesh to the images, to shape them in the chemistry of pigments, to offer to the desire of the spectator - a lover of painting is always a voyeur - images made of the same material as the world around us, and the memory of the world that we are forgetting. her painting is ambitious, voluntary and voracious, but also scholarly, subtle and refined. carnivorous and haunted , that is to say: scandalously seductive, as would a femme fatale, and full of promise. didier semin moi , 2016. oil on linen - 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in - 195 × 114 cm ( photo : sara sani ) zÉro deux agathe , 2016. oil on linen - 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in - 195 × 114 cm abdy , 2016 . oil on linen - 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in - 195 × 114 cm vice magazine ( photo : jehane mahmoud ) heartbreak hotel and although it’s always crowded, you still can find some room. where broken hearted lovers do cry away their gloom. elvis presley – heartbreak hotel (1956) ’s paintings borrow from both past and present. she paints contemporary life, capturing the presence, faces and movements of friends, lovers and strangers. her portraits combine historical references (from prehistorical times to today) and personal photographs (generally polaroids) or images taken from facebook and instagram. this leads to different forms of interference. munch makes an appearance alongside hilma af klint. balthus is juxtaposed with a tarot card drawing. whitney houston crosses paths with hokusai, while victor brauner collides with leonardo da vinci and tamara de lempicka. sokol mixes different genres, from classical painting to pop music, creating a cross-disciplinary and fragmented approach to figurative art. as a result of her subjects and their portrayal, her works create tension and complexity, which are inherent to the gaze of the other, opposition and human relationships. her life-size portraits are like a physical confrontation. figures float in indeterminate times and places, with their eyes open – and fixed on viewers – or closed. sokol seems to oscillate between different states. each portrait contains a range of emotions situated between two extremes – past and present, life and death, private and public, fascination and revulsion, fantasy and fear, and intimacy and voyeurism. using these existential dichotomies as a source of inspiration, the artist explores a zone where discomfort and seduction coexist, attract and repulse. sokol’s most recent works explore history and the representation of women: muses, models, witches, saints, lovers, goddesses, adolescents and queens. her portraits depict women who are feminine, masculine, androgynous, alone, in relationships, lascivious or masked. they combine individual and collective histories. as sokol paints lilith, medusa, saint agatha and salome, she breaks down different times, myths, cultures and religions, to create a syncretic form of art. while quotations and associations are common practices in painting, sokol uses these sources to create a style that i consider marginal and radical. while her figures are neither overly exuberant nor provocative, their indifferent and powerful attitudes express a radiant insolence. julie crenn >> version française ——————————————————————————————————————– i galerie dutko bonaparte october 14, 2016 – november 12, 2016 ——————————————————————————————————————– le vogue sabbath siham floating in between , 2016 . oil on linen - 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in - 195 × 114 cm agsila & healer - magic lesson_pieta , 2016 . oil on linen, 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in - 195 × 114 cm michele magema - congolese medium , 2016 . oil on linen - 11 4/5 × 15 7/10 in - 30 × 40 cm bonnie and ylva (annuciation) , 2016, oil on linen, 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in - 195 × 114 johanne - hysterical invention , 2016 . oil on linen - 11 4/5 × 15 7/10 in - 30 × 40 cm ines - blacklight beauty , 2016 - oil on linen - 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in - 195 × 114 cm dina - determinated diva , 2016 - oil on linen - 76 4/5 × 44 9/10 in - 195 × 114 cm ciao , 2015 . oil on canvas, 195 x 114 cm on by elisa rigoulet “will you marry me”. those were some of the first words spoken to me by when i was introduced to her by her energetic compadre and fellow french woman isabelle le normand (and subject of one of the paintings i now own). apolonia a french painter, feminist, lover of all things, survivor and charismatic surfer of life, in it raw state, finds herself in my home negotiating a residency in los angeles that will last 6 weeks and will include free paint, free belgium linen (the finest), free studio, free uber and a photoshoot for my first assignment for vogue.it.. i have no idea if she is talented, i have not seen her work, but i recognize energy and after a fast explanation of her roots in the tough suburbs of paris, her harboring of some of the femen’s, ukrainian’s famous feminists and her all go attitude i say yes on the spot and off she goes. paint store, studio a little cash and apolonia enters the simcor machine. 6 weeks later, 4 photoshoots a lot of studio time, $2000 spent on uber x and instinct as usual in my case has won over intellect. the paintings are great, she is great, the photos are great and to bake the cake, so to speak, her dis robing at a cool underground art fair at the paramount ranch, at the rear end of a giant green inflatable but plug by the artist paul mccarthy just made the whole thing worthwhile. ladies and gentleman, may i present, the young artist: . texy by stefan simchowitz exhibition view process is desire , witcher project, inglewood, 2015 exhibition view process is desire , witcher project, inglewood, 2015 walker evans / , attic, brussels . opening march 9th 2016 exhibition view walker evans / , attic, brussels exhibition view walker evans / , attic, brussels baby green , 2016 . oil on linen, 29 x 39 cm exhibition view walker evans / , attic, brussels kyle england , 2015 . oil and encaustic on canvas, 146 x 97 cm kiss , 2015 . oil on canvas, 18 x 24 cm desperate sex , 2015 . oil on canvas, 195 x 114 cm . at the red eye studio, brooklyn moi sans masque , 2015 . oil on canvas, 18 x 24 cm lili grafitti , 2015 . oil on canvas, 116 x 89 cm life ain't fair , 22visonti, paris, 2015 . curated by la gad arnaud deschin . © romain darnaud henry taylor_sleeping painter , 2016 . oil on belgian linen, 203 x 127 cm . at whitcher projects, los angeles, curated by isabelle le normand august blum_boy kid , 2016 . oil on belgian linen, 203 x 127 cm chill , 2015 . oil on canvas, 195 x 114 cm mlk, 2015 . oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm petit painter , 2015 . oil on canvas, 195 x 114 cm loup , 2015 . oil on canvas, 24 x 35 cm bonnie blues , 2015 . oil on canvas, 57 x 72 cm black jacobin , 2015 . oil on canvas, 57 x 72 cm elliot glass , 2015 . oil and encaustic on canvas, 146 x 97 cm illies , 2015 . oil on canvas, 195 x 114 cm psycho_egyptian , 2015 . oil on canvas, 145 x 114 cm
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