Michal-Sophia Tobiass is a visual artist and choreographer based in Paris. Her work explores the question of continuity with the living world after experiences of rupture. Nourished by field research and exchanges with researchers, her practice often begins with an encounter - with an animal, a prehistoric site, a material, or a landscape. Through the study of ritual practices in cultures without writing, she develops the notion of vectors of memory and transmutation - horses, bees, snakes, copper, salt, and wax - which she activates through her transdisciplinary practice.
In her drawings, paintings, and small-scale sculptures, materials meet, transform one another, and reveal the possibility of coexistence. At a larger scale, sculpture gives form to spaces of passage, built around beloved bodies and inviting visitors to enter and inhabit them, while choreography becomes the place where this research is transmitted through movement.
Across these different practices, her work explores the possibility of reactivating forms of continuity and renewing a sense of belonging to the living world.