Sofiane M’Sadek, artist and glass blower, explores memory

Through colorful and poetic installations, Sofiane M’Sadek seeks to establish a link with the public. The glass, far from being a simple material, becomes, for him, an open door on interior worlds, an invitation to explore collective memory. A sensory journey: ” I have always been a jack-of-all-trades, and when I saw the first picker, our first material, in the oven for the glass, I had to be there, at that time. The gestures, the heat … I have a lot of trouble pose words on it, but it is my feeling at the moment. »»

Sofiane M’Sadek is glass craftsman and glass blower: ” As an artist, I really like to do for myself. For glass, it’s very special. You need technique. My specialty is cane blowing. »»

Sofiane M’Sadek was born in Paris and grew up in the Parisian suburbs. After obtaining his baccalaureate, he turned to cinema studies and discovered video art. This favorite for art brings him to Strasbourg Arts-Deco, where he was introduced to the work of the glass. Passionate about the gesture and the warmth of the glass, Sofiane develops her own artistic style, mixing technique and creativity. Currently installed in Nantes, he works in a workshop while carrying out personal projects and artistic residences such as that at Musverre, the museum in the north of France dedicated to the history of glass.

“” Sometimes I go home and work from home, with tools like a dremel (a tool) to saw the glass, cut. I use it a lot on certain parts, I do a lot of cuts at the Dremel, and I can do it from my home. I come out of the workshop, I “eaten“Glass, I go home, I” eat “glass! The rental of a workshop is a big financial load. Residences like this, it’s very good for young artists. We can express themselves, miss, redo … When I rent a workshop as I have already done, the order is already engaged. The customer orders me a room or leaves me free to create. From there, I know that I have the order and I can allow myself to rent the workshop. »»

The atypical journey of this artist and craftsman placing it at the crossroads between art, design and crafts. His works explore themes of memory : ” I express myself through the glass. I do not necessarily have a message, but if the person manages to dive into my universe and that he hangs up memories, his experience to my pieces, it is that I “won ”. I don’t really have a message, I do more art to express myself than anything else. There are many memories in the body, in general, as much for the realization as in the final aspect, the brain and everything. I work a lot on memory, but on myself in fact. All that we have always kept in memory forever, what we have experienced is what determines the person that we are at the moment T. This is perhaps what I am looking for, to be able to express a little of myself. I try to hide behind my pieces and just say that they exist by themselves. The important thing is not me. The most important thing is that people look and, if possible, that they plunge into it and that they tell me ” it made me think of something ”. It is very good that it evokes a memory ! »»

The cane blowing technique is at the heart of its work. The heat of the oven, the fragility of the glass, bewitched and fascinate Sofiane M’Sadek. “” You have to be focused. When you take the cane, you know that if the room lasts five hours, your mind is only there for five hours. Small parasitic thoughts can quickly slip. Finally, when I say ” skid ”, I can miss the room. It is intense level concentration. There is the material at the end of the cane, but also the people who have worked with. You can have an assistant, have several, but the one on the bench remains the conductor. He will give the indications when you have to blow, how to heat up. We manage a little while at the same time. Afterwards, by dint of working with the same person, there is also a complicity that is set up. And not to mention, we know what we have to do. With the experience of matter, we know when how to do it. »»

Her creative process, Sofiane M’Sadek draws him on her memories and her dialogue with matter: ” The mental image, I work a lot like that. After that, inevitably, they will change a little in the real world. But I work a lot as a mental photograph. I rather have my head that wanders alone (laughs). This can be a discussion before going to sleep too, when you are between sleep and reality. I talk a lot about real and imaginary, that’s all my work, but I remain open. I can have a discussion and my brain will drop out a bit. I will think of something else for a few seconds and say to myself ” hey, it’s not bad ”. I store this idea that I can realize later. On the other hand, I modify it, for such physical aspects, with matter, because glass, as material, has its limits, we cannot force it either. I play with her too. It is a dialogue with matter. There is also the financial aspect. »»

The glass is for this glassmaker A material as fantastic as fascinating who invites him to exchange: ” It’s a discussion. The glass discusses as he wants (laughs). Everyone sees it fragilely, but it can also be very hard. There is also lightness, it can be fragile and have a sustainability in time too, but in an instant, it can disappear. Finally, the room can disappear. I think it’s a mixture of everything that intrigues me a little. I am curious and this material is magical. Everyone knows matter, but no one really knows it. When you buy a glass in the trade, it’s just an object. Technically, I want to succeed in making a goblet as much as making an art or an installation, or going in the abstract or the very concrete millimeter in the compass. This is what is interesting with this material, it offers a very wide range of possibilities. »»

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