Biography
Born in France in 1969.
Lives and works in Flers, Normandie, France.
Farida Le Suavé’s sculptures breathe. Inevitably, their very skin colour and softness of touch provoke associations with the body, with things organic and sometimes bring to mind a receptacle – the body as a vessel with orifices appearing here and there. Strata of ‘flesh’, of clay, rise up like an amorphous embryo would, multiplying from almost-nothing. The shapes thus created are generous, toned, wrinkled – carried by a breath, even out of breath, barely standing… These artworks present flesh as a territory, as something quite apart, an identity that is independent, autonomous. The work is all too human as it incarnates contradictions, from caress to destruction, from flesh as a playground, a place of comfort, to flesh abandoned, reduced to nothing more than a cry of despair. Looking for other flesh (Enlacé, 2019 – Embraced/Intertwined, 2019) or a vehicle that activates impenetrable links between micro- and macro-cosmos (Coup de foudre, 2019 – Love at first sight/Flash of lighting, 2019), in Farida Le Suavé’s works the flesh also strongly expresses the indeed very complex register of desire, as in Deux pots (Two pots) (2005) a paraphrase of Bernini’s Daphne and Apollo.
Exhibitions
Pré-histoires (Pre-histories)
Farida le Suavé
18.11.2022 > 14.01.2023
Farida Le Suavé’s ceramic sculptures have been formed and marked by mythological times and borrowings from various historical human civilisations. The artist belongs to her time, whilst simultaneously surpassing it. Archaism and contemporaneity are closely intertwined in her works, rich with a delicately balanced suggestivity. Her forms have an undeniable human echo; they are languorous, eager, skilful and clumsy, tragic, funny, sensual and sometimes suffering […]
Chère chair
(Dear Flesh – Fabulous Flesh)
Farida le Suavé
Jeremy Stigter
23.05 > 20.07.2019
Flesh. A connection between the body’s different parts, a connection between human beings. We are, indeed, all made of flesh: tender flesh, soft flesh, toned. Masses of flesh, young, fresh flesh, old, flaccid flesh, at every stage, flesh lives, vibrates, full of palpitations… Flesh exists beyond the beat of the heart. A source of passion, obsession, fascination, terror […]
Undone sketches
Peter Martensen
17. 06. – 23. 07. 2016
Intentions, idées, notes, projets, plans, journaux intimes, mémoires, registres, archives ou simples feuillets… Notre vie, nos pensées, nos rêves prennent souvent – et parfois seulement – la forme de traces écrites… Tiroirs et autres rangements en sont emplis. Ajoutons à cela les tentatives, les projets avortés, les impossibilités… La confrontation avec une réalité qui ne veut pas émerger ou qui se heurte à ce temps dont on manque toujours. Pour ne pas mentionner les documents aux informations si sensibles qu’elles vivent intensément mais dans l’ombre… jusqu’au jour où…
Off site
Musée national Adrien Dubouché, Limoges
Formes vivantes
Participation : Farida Le Suavé
09.10.2019 – 10.02.2020
The exhibition explores the representation of the living in ceramics, from Renaissance to today. Several artworks by French sculptor Farida Le Suavé are on display: Organic forms of materialized flesh.
