After the first part of her residency, Sonia Saroya shares insights from Derniers Souffles, an ongoing collaborative research project with Édouard Sufrin. During an open studio visit, she invites the public into conversation for an exchange of ideas.

Derniers Souffles, a research-creation project initiated in 2021 by Sonia Saroya and Edouard Sufrin, explores the acoustic characteristics of old electronic components, their mineral origins, and the industrial processes required for their fabrication. During their residency, they will work on L’archipel (The archipelago), which will be exhibited during Oscillation ::: from the Moterhship. L’archipel is playing with the musicality of the breaths of obsolete diodes and transistors. A sound installation which can be performed by two people, as an attempt to create a language to speak to oneself, to the other, and to others. A way to let mineral sonorities tell their story while shedding words.

Meant to be activated during live shows, performances, and also lectures, the installation will be the subject of collaborations with sound artists, musicians, and researchers. Thus, the archipelago becomes a medium for musical and theoretical expression, where the islands are both the sculptures and instruments connected by cables, and the people—artists and audiences—brought into relation through the experiences they will have shared.

Sonia Saroya (FR) develops a fragile and discreet universe where landscapes — underground, industrial, or natural environments — resonate with questions drawn from the humanities, philosophy, and low-tech technologies. Her work consists of installations at the crossroads of sculpture, digital art, and sound art. She creates sound sculptures combining craft techniques and electronic circuits, as well as autonomous sound devices, kinds of “tool-artworks” that make it possible to design sound walks and listening journeys. A graduate of Paris VIII University Vincennes–Saint-Denis, her work has received various supports in France (DICRéAM, Île-de-France Region, City of Paris) and has developed through several artist residencies (GMEA (Albi), GMEM (Marseille) Sound Art Lab (Denmark)…). She presents her works in art centers and cultural venues in France (CNEAI, La Station – Gare des Mines, GMEA, Instants Chavirés…) and abroad (WRO Biennale in Poland…).