Until March 6, the artist Sophie Lannier is displaying her “dreams of shores” at the municipal gallery Lou Babazouk, offering an abstract and refined representation of everything that shores can be.
The few works on display are the result of a juxtaposition of various materials. One, in relief, is made from seeds — lentils, soybeans, beans — which the artist uses for their symbolism of growth and life. The other material, smoother and more homogeneous, contrasts with the first and creates these famous “shores.”
These “dreams of shores” give us a blue-tinted view of life in this exhibition, which the artist envisioned as an “escape into an imagination heightened by a forced confinement.”
About Lou Babazouk
Lou Babazouk (in Niçois, “old Nice”) is a municipal gallery that has been open since 2019 to any artist, amateur or professional, wishing to exhibit. There is no selection jury, no age criteria, or any artistic criteria; artists simply need to fill out a registration form and are then placed on a waiting list. Each artist can exhibit for a maximum of three weeks.
This space allows any artist to have a place to exhibit in the heart of old Nice (8 rue de la Loge) — an initiative taken by the deputy mayor of Nice responsible for culture, Robert Roux. Since 2021, a second gallery of the same type, Lou Babazouk 2, has also opened in old Nice.
