Sabine Mirlesse

Overview
Installation view, Andréhn-Schiptjenko Paris, 2024
Installation view, Andréhn-Schiptjenko Paris, 2024
Sabine Mirlesse is a franco-american artist living and working in Paris. Her research is centered around the visibility of thresholds and the interiority of landscape, with a particular interest in how geological sites are divined, interpreted, and recounted. Weaving her way through mineral narratives and cosmologies, Mirlesse's multidisciplinary approach manifests across an accumulation of strata, completing sculpture with photography, installation, video and writing. She is particularly interested in the ways earth materials and image come together to create geomantic readings. Her interest in the instrumentation with which we measure the invisible explores a variety of formal possibilities in fusion with a kind of exegesis of landscape. Her creative practice is rooted in her background in mysticism and literature. 
 
She has exhibited internationally in galleries and institutions and is the author of two monographs (As if it should have been a quarry, 2013, Damiani Editore and Pietra di Luce, 2019, Quants Editions). Mirlesse has partipated in residency programs in North America, Europe, and Asia and has been invited to create several public artworks. 

Mirlesse holds an MFA from Parsons the New School for Design in New York City. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree double majoring in History Religion and English Literature from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

Her permanent work Ofrenda was inaugurated at Les Arques in 2023. In 2022-2023 she was a laureate for the Mondes Nouveaux prize awarded by the French Ministry of Culture, and created Crystalline Thresholds | Les Portes de Givre, an ephemeral installation of seven portals activated by ice storms at the top of the Puy de Dôme volcano, in collaboration with the oldest weather observatory in France. This project is the subject of the artist's latest monograph, published in April 2024 by Filigranes Editions, with essays by Bernard Blistène, Pierre Coutris, Nathalie Huret and Sabine Mirlesse.

She teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris,  and has been invited to present her work during conferences at the Pompidou Centre and the Sorbonne.  

She is a studio resident at Poush in Paris and is Artist Laureate for the French Ministry of Culture’s Mondes Nouveaux prize.
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  • Ode to Measurement
    Ode to Measurement
  • Maia 12.22
    Maia 12.22
  • Elektrod no 1
    Elektrod no 1
  • Elektrod no 2
    Elektrod no 2
  • Elektrod no 3
    Elektrod no 3
  • Elektrod no 4
    Elektrod no 4
  • Elektrod no 5
    Elektrod no 5
  • Elektrod no 6
    Elektrod no 6
  • Elektrod no 7
    Elektrod no 7
  • Elektrod no 8
    Elektrod no 8
  • Wind Vane no. 2
    Wind Vane no. 2
  • Anchor no. 2
    Anchor no. 2
  • Anchor no. 3
    Anchor no. 3
  • Divining lungs no. 4
    Divining lungs no. 4
  • Electric Prayer no.3
    Electric Prayer no.3
  • Dowse
    Dowse
  • Strike
    Strike
  • The Cave is an Eye, no. 7
    The Cave is an Eye, no. 7
  • The Cave is an Eye, no. 9
    The Cave is an Eye, no. 9
  • The Cave is an Eye, no. 9
    The Cave is an Eye, no. 9
  • The Cave is an Eye, no. 7
    The Cave is an Eye, no. 7
  • Divining lungs, no. 5
    Divining lungs, no. 5
  • Electric Prayer no. 1
    Electric Prayer no. 1
  • oh kilauea, i'm writing about a young man
    oh kilauea, i'm writing about a young man
  • oh soufriere, do you think this counts as writing
    oh soufriere, do you think this counts as writing
  • dear asama, if only i had known i might be able
    dear asama, if only i had known i might be able
  • dear piton, i'm beginning to believe we are all contagious
    dear piton, i'm beginning to believe we are all contagious
  • The Cave is an Eye, no. 5
    The Cave is an Eye, no. 5
  • surtsey, this image was taken before you were named
    surtsey, this image was taken before you were named
  • dear stromboli, you are the more spectacular
    dear stromboli, you are the more spectacular
  • dear vesuvius, i was talking about you over dinner
    dear vesuvius, i was talking about you over dinner
  • merapi, there appears to be a palace inside you
    merapi, there appears to be a palace inside you
  • dearest mongibello, i learned this too is one of your names
    dearest mongibello, i learned this too is one of your names
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