vox-ARTIS: Sophie le Hire

Sophie Le Hire shares her creative process and, shows for the first time in Dakar, her latest work PROTESTE! which is a piece of "video art about the daily struggle of street workers in Senegal." She's in conversation with art critic and curator Massamba Mbaye.

About Sophie Le Hire: Sophie Le Hire is an artist of French origin born in 1984 in Paris. She is a multidisciplinary artist, as well as an illustrator and teacher and has been living in Dakar since 2016. She started her exploration into artistic and pedagogical practices in Latin America in 2008, for two years in Mexico. Her practice feeds off her environment, artisitc collaborations with museums, artists and institutions for children. Her creations are an exploration of the human being in their essence and their relation to the world. Sophie Le Hire uses different media like video, drawing, performance, installation, sound design and writing to share what she wishes to share, denounce and suggest about the human being. This vast exploration brings her to develop the essence of her approach: "creative listening."