The French artist Catherine Soriano’s stylized sculptures are small in size yet powerful in their subtlety. Her sculptured human figures reveal an explicit signature, in which the gleaming, smooth skin and the organic flowing surfaces are defined. Soriano chooses simplicity of form so that the essence of what she wants to depict is shown to the best advantage. She usually displays her figures in pairs, by which it is mainly the duality that she wants to emphasize. She achieves this by making the bodies flow into each other. The indistinct separation of male and female, the embrace or elimination, represent the ambivalence that fascinates Soriano. The same duality is the basis in her sculptures of pregnant women, even though it is now in regard to the unity of mother and child. To realize this she puts most of the emphasis on the heavy curves of the tummies. Soriano does not make her sculptures solely to give shape to what she wants to say; the art of sculpting also deeply appeals to her. The challenge of translating an idea into a three dimensional form compels her as much as the idea itself.
Education: autodidact
