The Unsaid Remains Remembered explores what Sophie-Yen Bretez calls a “dramaturgy of passage”: moments when spaces shift, times overlap and memory endures as life moves forward. Working with shaped canvases and large-scale compositions, she turns everyday objects into symbolic thresholds guiding the viewer between intimacy and vastness, presence and absence. Horizons of changing skies and seasons coexist with traces of the body - reflections, bite marks, stains - where ambiguity unsettles. Known for her figures that return the gaze, Bretez expands her language beyond nudity to charge objects, landscapes, and atmospheres with the same tension. Her work opens spaces where vulnerability and strength meet, and the ordinary becomes an emotional landmark.
JD Malat Gallery, Dubai, Oct 1st-Nov. 2
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