Exhibition Launch By Zoé Vayssières

Traces, imprints, and memory serve as Zoé Vayssières' inspiration. She is a French artist and a graduate of ENSAD (The National Superior School of Decorative Arts, Paris). After working as an art director in the world of art and fashion for 15 years, she moved to Shanghai. In China, she developed her work as a sculptor and honed her bronze techniques. She cast fleeting and endangered objects in bronze to make them timeless. Trained in art and typography, her inspiration also lies in words, quotations, and forgotten names, which she engraves upon bronze. She combines embedded text and objects to question the selections and distortions that our collective memory creates.

Zoé’s profile has risen thanks to several public and large-scale commissions, notably at the Jing’an International Sculpture Park (Shanghai, China, 2018), where she is the only Western woman featured alongside artists such as Arman and Wim Delvoye. In France, the artist participated in Parcours St Germain with an outdoor sculpture, ‘Plis de la mémoire,’ exhibited at Quai Malaquais (Paris); this work is now permanently installed at the Domaine de Chaumont (2021). Focusing on the theme of ‘The Eclipsed,’ which reveals the names of forgotten women, the artist developed performances at venues like the Centre Pompidou and MAM, as well as sculptures, including a recent state commission from the city of Châtenay-Malabry. In 2024/25, she has been invited as an Executive Fellow by Harvard University (Boston, USA) to further her research on memory in partnership with one of the world’s most advanced AI data labs, the D^3 Institute.

For more information : www.zoevayssieres.art