Weekend Portfolio: Aurélie Sorriaux
![Hair II, 2020](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5702ab9d746fb9634796c9f9/1633066023067-UPNJWJU5RPV61IJCDYF4/%231_AS_Press_Hair+II.png)
![Self-Portrait, 2020](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5702ab9d746fb9634796c9f9/1633066038916-W8R7WQC8AAFAT965931N/%232_AS_Press_Self-Portrait.jpg)
![Hair III, 2020](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5702ab9d746fb9634796c9f9/1633066053678-MK32XJ5QK0SG7WVHZCNH/%235_AS_Press_Hair+III.png)
![Family portrait I, Diptych, 2020](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5702ab9d746fb9634796c9f9/1633066068471-GJ21AHFVMZKB13RPBWYO/%236_AS_Press_Family+Portrait+I-5MB.jpg)
![Family portrait II, Diptych, 2020](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5702ab9d746fb9634796c9f9/1633066078878-UBMBOMBEYN1HRVYBNU4N/%237_AS_Press_Family+Portrait+II.jpg)
![Shadow, 2020](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5702ab9d746fb9634796c9f9/1633066090233-O9PQ563AJ809V1YS4S85/%2312_AS_Press_Shadow.jpg)
![Emilie et Ambre, 2020](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5702ab9d746fb9634796c9f9/1633066101306-YLKCXU13RXUQIG4RQ4SR/%2313_img_801_Emilie+et+Ambre_20x30_3000px_srgb.jpg)
Images and text by Aurélie Sorriaux
Born in 1994 in France, I am a visual artist based in Amsterdam. After a Bachelor of Photography in France, I studied Fine Arts before graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie with a Bachelor of Arts in Photography.
The photographs are visual explorations through memory experience and the complex state of existence. I examine the question of ourselves and research how to link the lands to our ancestors.
Nowadays, we are facing a universal question of our origin, searching for an answer about our roots. It raises the question of identity: what I am? I am my nationality or my DNA? I am what my ancestors were and thus, who were they? Looking at my personal approach takes the viewer back to his own history. The question of identity has become a general interest and each exchange with the audience make me more aware of it.
In my work “Yes, I am a palimpsest too” I create a bridge between geology and genealogy. By using the geology as a metaphor of the past of each individual I investigate the history of our personal lives. In my recent work “In Search of my Curls” I look at what remains within the family and how to identify to it.
I exhibited “In Search of my Curls” at the Foam Museum in Amsterdam in 2020. I am a laureate of the GUP New Talents 2021 and FreshEyes 2021.
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