Sophia El Mokhtar is a French visual artist born in 1979 in Toulouse.
She began writing in 2012 through the blog Paysages Intérieurs and self-published her first book ” états unis ” in 2013.
She reflects on ways of telling real-life stories.
What she seeks to implement, particularly in her often grotesque performances, which she debuted in 2015, is the question of feminist emancipation by staging herself in the skin of different women.
Since 2019 she has been actively collaborating with Le Générateur and Lieu Commun Artist Run Space in Toulouse on both collective and individual artistic projects.
She is currently directing her artistic practice towards the search for an immersive experience with the development of sound and musical work based on her own texts.
Her artistic practice is supported by the Occitanie Region and the Occitanie Drac through artistic residencies and production grants.
Photo © Alexis Komenda
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