Resume

Upon completing her studies in Literature at the University of Lausanne (1989-96), Sophie Guyot took up visual art in self-taught fashion. Light(ing) has proved to be her favorite material. Her approach has a down-to-earth poetic slant to it, and it is concrete factors —her contact with a material, her relationship with the site to be addressed—that give rise to both her desire and design.
By contrast to other that have explored light as an artistic medium, Sophie Guyot’s approach to light relates to humanity at an earlier, and humbler, stage. Whether in large-scale projects or more modestly sized ones, her work bespeaks a flawless relationship between humans and their biotope. It is akin to a conspiratorial wink at nature, spinning a metaphor on the human condition.
Born in Morges (Switzerland) on January 22, 1970. Lives and works in Lausanne.

Sophie Guyot – Av. de Tivoli 19bis – 1007 Lausanne
+ 41 (0)76/ 381 70 32 sophie[at]sophieguyot.ch

CV

2024
Stellenbosch/ Afrique du Sud, Spier Light Art – The Meaning of Meaning, installation
Regensburg/ DE, Re.Light Festival – The Stardust Memory Project, urban installation
Toulouse/ F, Traverses Festival – dancing with kaoru and my-other-self, video-installation
Lausanne/ CH, Printemps de la Poésie, Espace Amaretto – Maisonnette des Morts, performance by Francesco Biamonte
Lausanne/ CH, Haute Ecole Pédagogique – Mots – Wörter – Parole, installation
Bourg-en-Bresse/ FR, ZOA – [45xVIVANTS], installation
Bologna/ IT, Bologna in Lettere (Arte-fatti contemporanei), – dancing with kaoru and my-other-self, video

2023
Genève/ CH, Théâtre de la Comédie – 3 luminous sculptures in the foyer of the theatre
Carouge GE/ CH, Rue Saint-Joseph – Les Nébuleuses, installation
Ljubljana/ SLO, Svetlobna Gverila – The Meaning of Meaning, installation
Nakanojo/ JP, Nakanojo biennale – dancing with kaoru and my-other-self, video-installation
Tokyo/ JP, Haremame (Shibuya) – Kizuna – performance
Lausanne/ CH, Ecole primaire des Plaines du Loup – Wunderbaum, installation pérenne

2022
Lausanne/ CH, Toussaint’s festival – One More Dance, video-installation
Brixen/IT, Waterlight Festival – La Maison Flux, installation
Porto/PT, Serralves Foundation – La Maison Flux, installation

2021
Vevey/CH, Théâtre de l’Oriental – Sans titre, show by Anne-Cécile Moser
Lausanne/ CH, Toussaint’s Festival – One More Dance, solo show
Mitrovica/Kosovo, – The Stardust Memory Project, urban installation
Chavannes-Renens/CH, Salle Perrier – ARCHISALÉ III, solo show
Lausanne/CH, Opération Artistes d’ici – One More Dance, street painting on advertising support

2019
Ekaterinenburg/RU, Undark – La Maison Flux, installation
Oulu/FI, Lumo – [45xVIVANTS], installation
Graz/AT, Klanglicht – H-U-M-A-N-?, installation

2018
Skopje/MK, Light Art District – [45xVIVANTS], installation
Genève, /CH, Festival Mos Espa, Motel Campo – Deathpicable me, installation
Ulan-Bator & Murun Sum/ MNG, Land Art Mongolia – Tsogio? – Canter? – Galop?, installation
Genève/ CH, Halle Nord, Union TMF 24/7 – In Trust I Trust, performance

2017
Port-au-Prince/ HT, 5th Ghetto biennale – Publis’haïti, installation
Bernex/ CH, Le petit salon des délits, installation
Odessa/ UKR, 5th Odessa biennale of contemporary art – H-U-M-A-N-?, installation
Chicago/ US, Elmhurst art museum – Sense of Place, ÜBERGRAD, collective exhibition
La Chaux-de-Fonds/ CH, le Quartier Général – ARCHISALÉ II, solo exhibition

2016
Côme/ IT, 8202 Festival – H-U-M-A-N-?, installation
Ferney-Voltaire/ F, Festival Voltaire – [45xVIVANTS], installation
Lausanne/ CH, Flon Art – [45xVIVANTS], installation
Bulle/ CH, Musée gruérien – ARCHISALÉ, solo exhibition

2015
Genève/ CH, Geneva Lux Festival – NEPENTHÈS, installation
Cascais/ PT, Lumina Festival – La Maison Flux and [3milleLUCES], installation
Sharjah/ EAU, Sharjah Light Festival – majaz waterfront park, installation

2014
Ljubljana/ SLO, Svetlobna Gverila – Svetlobni Dom, installation
Lausanne/ CH, espace abstract – Technical Grounding, exhibition duo with POL
Copenhague/ DK, Dansehallerne – ON/VOLT, collaboration with Recoil Performance Group
Sharjah/ EAU, Sharjah Light Festival – Kuwait Square, installation

2013
Lausanne/ CH, espace abstract – ÜBERGRAD, solo exhibition
Lausann/ CH, Théâtre Arsenic – ÜBERFLUX, perennial outdoor installation
Mitrovica/ Nord Kosovo, M-I-T-R-O-? – Temporary installation on the city walls

2012
Braunschweig/ DE, experiment: STADTRAUM – La Maison Flux, installation
Sierre/ CH, Théâtre les Halles – Installation perennial installation in the theater foyer
Lyon/ F, Fondation Bullukian – [45xVIVANTS], installation

2011
Nyon/ CH, Installation in the bay of Nyon, solo
Brussels/ BE, Nuit Blanche – [45xVIVANTS], installation
Lausanne/ CH, Nuit des Musées – [45xVIVANTS], solo exhibition
Belgrade/ RS, Belgrade of Light – Into The Blu, installation
Neuchâtel/ CH, Millénaire – installation
Ljubljana/ SLO, Svetlobna Gverila – Into The Blu, installation
Gand/ BE, Lichtfestival – [3milleLUCES], installation

2010
Bruxelles/ BE, Nuit Blanche – G-R-E-E-N- ?, performance
Lausanne/ CH, Festival de la Cité – La Cour, installation
Bilbao/ SP, Noche Blanca – Into The Blu, installation

2009
Lyon/ F, Fête des Lumières – Into The Blu, installation
Bruxelles/ BE, Nuit Blanche – Into The Blu, installation
Poitiers/ F, Parc du Futuroscope – Les Amibes, installation

2008
Genève/ CH, Festival Arbres et Lumières – Cocoon, installation

2007
Lyon/ F, Fête des Lumières – Efflorescences, installation

PUBLICATIONS:

  • XXVII Rencontres Internationales Traverses: In Situ In Tempore, 2024, 228 pages
  • Art en Ville – à la découverte de l’art dans les espaces publics lausannois, Edition: Service de la culture  de la Ville de Lausanne, 2019
  • Who Are We Now?, catalogue of 5th Land Art Mogolia, 2018, 119 pages
  • turbulence, catalogue of the 5th Odessa biennale, 2018, 87 pages, ISBN 978-617-7518-51-7
  • Lyon, de l’ombre à la lumière, official book of the fête des lumières, 2017, ISBN 9 782955 3629 14
  • Guide contemporain – Le guide de la Fondation Lémanique pour l’Art contemporain, Volume III, Collectif, FLAC, 2016, 285 pages, EAN 9782839919838
  • abstract 15 ans, Editions art&fiction, Softcover, 200 x 250 mm, 128 pages, ISBN 978-2-940570-05-8
  • SuperLux, Under the direction of Davina Jackson, New York, Thames and Hudson, 272 pages, ISBN-13: 9780500343043
  • You Say Light, I Think Shadow, Sandra Praun & Aleksandra Stratimirovic, Publisher Art And Theory Publishing, ISBN 9789198087482
  • Art en Ville – le guide des oeuvres en plein air, Edition: Service de la culture & Service d’architecture de la Ville de Lausanne, 2014
  • Lausanne contemporain , Collectif, FLAC, 2012, 554 pages, EAN 9782839911085