Yoan Sorin practises equally performance as sculpture or painting, all of which beeing as much a part of a thought of the trace than a kind of Chaos Monde, to borrow some notions from Edouard Glissant. Indeed, “just as a logbook, Yoan Sorin’s practice is declined according to fragmented mythologies that the artist updates through drawings and installations, paintings and performances. As he exercises his caustic and sometimes acerbic eye, Yoan Sorin combines note-taking and objects creation that can be taken as rebuses, slogans, aphorisms, places of collusions of representations. Prolixand incisive, just like his numerous drawing books that he fills out on a regular basis, his production combines craft and low tech, bad spirit and sense of derision.” -- Frédéric Emprou and Marie-Laure Lapeyrere

Yoan lives and works in Marseille. He graduated at École supérieure des beaux-arts of Nantes Métropole and universities of Montreal and of Cuenca in Spain. His drawings, paintings, videos and performances blur the distinctions between popular culture and art. His works has been exhibited at Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille, 2015), at Frac des Pays de la Loire (Nantes, 2016), at MNAC (Bucarest, 2016), at Nada lokal (Vienne, 2018), at Hunter East Harlem Gallery (New York, 2018) and at Embajada (Porto Rico, 2021). He has been collaborating with the 14n61w gallery in Fort de France (Martinique) since 2018.

Yoan Sorin concebeu um sistema de som composto por grandes talhas de barro tradicionalmente utilizadas para conservar e transportar alimentos como azeite ou vinho. Estes recipientes, pintados e montados numa estrutura metálica, amplificam a música, composta, executada e gravada por Yoan Sorin — música de «cozinha» em que os potes são como percussão. Esta peça faz parte de uma genealogia familiar: refere-se à história da sua avó Manoela Graça Pavilla, que deixou Portugal para casar com o seu avô, um famoso pugilista martinicano, e que, após a morte deste, se mudou para Guadalupe para abrir o «Santa Maria», um restaurante onde, à noite, a comida era acompanhada de música crioula.

Yoan Sorin

Metal structure, pigment and acrylic paint on ceramic jars, speakers, music, acrylic paint on wood, collection of objects from Manoela Graça Pavilla

Estrutura metálica, pigmento e tinta acrílica sobre potes de argila, altifalantes, música, tinta acrílica sobre madeira, coleção de objetos pertencentes a Manoela Graça Pavilla