Anne-Sophie Vallée’s work deals with the symbiotic relationship between body and environment. She is concerned with the enmeshment of synthetic matter and the body, seeping in through quotidian skin-to-skin contact. Exploring new materialist feminist and vitalist ideas, her sculptures include metals and minerals that often present in the form of micro-particles. Her work blends organic matter like plants, sugar, and gelatine, with industrial plastics and polymers. It foregrounds the entanglements of the living and the dead, and calls for a reconsideration of this hierarchy. While attuned to sensibilities traditionally associated with the feminine, such as interiority, Vallée is inclined to disbelieve in a strict barrier between inside and outside. Her work asks the question: how can humans welcome emerging life forms with care, even as we grieve the disappearance of others?
Anne-Sophie Vallée is a sculptor living and working in Tiohtià:ke, Montréal. In 2025 she graduated from the MFA program at Concordia University, in Sculpture and Ceramics, and previously began a graduate program in the Jewelry and Metalsmithing Department of the Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI). She received her BFA in Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing (2016) from NSCAD University in Halifax, and also holds a diploma in craft techniques with specialization in artisanal jewelry (2011) from the Cégep du Vieux-Montréal in partnership with the École de joaillerie de Montréal.
