2020
Sculpture on a wall: cross with Jesus, a McDonald’s figurine, ribbon, 53 x 28 x 15 cm.
2020
Sculpture on a wall: cross with Jesus, a McDonald’s figurine, ribbon, 53 x 28 x 15 cm.
2018
Set of four drawings : lead pencil on recycled cardboard, 40 x30 cm each.
Source of images: Renaissance paintings of Madonna and child, Hitler, Mao, Staline and Bush from media.
2017
Oil paint on an antique painted tableau figuring a landscape on canvas signed Clara Bédard, gilded frame, 105 x 129 cm.
Image source of animals: media and stills from the film version of Histoire de Pi, a book written by Yann Martel in 2001.
2017
Pieces of draping cloth cut out, wax and pastel chalks.
Process: first, a naked live male model is completely covered with draping cloth to form the basic pattern pieces that constitute his head, chest, limbs and head. Next, the pieces are coloured to copy the corresponding body part. When the pattern pieces are sewn together and stuffed, they recreate a three-dimensional textile body.
2015
Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 76 cm.
Image source: media.
2015
Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 76 cm.
Image source: media.
2015
Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 76 cm.
Image source: media.
2013
Acrylic on canvas, moulding frames, 244 x 122 cm.
Image source: newspaper and media photos.
2013
A geo-art group of six paintings: acrylic on canvas, increasing sizes from 16 x 41 cm to 213 x 41 cm.
Image source: the installation is made to resemble the bars of a histogram graph that displays different variables. In this case, contrary to art history, the rich are pictured in small frames and the poor in big ones.
Image source: media.
2013
Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 130 cm
Image source : child model
2013
Five drawings on canvas: coloured oil sticks on unprepared canvas, one of 2,15 x3,5 m and four of 190 cm in length and various widths
Process: special collaboration with Marie-Ève Boucher’s dance company in Montreal. Marie-Ève was joined by five male dancers who improvized a choreography in a loft space with the floor entirely covered with white flower. They played with it and rolled in it. Compositions were done on the basis of the captivating expressions and surprising gestures captured on video. They were drawn on ecru canvas very vigorously with thick coloured oil sticks.
photo credit: photo Guy L’Heureux.
2008
Acrylic on floating canvas, 180 x 150 cm.
Image source: young men and women in a swimming pool.
2008
Acrylic on mounted cotton on plywood, 81,5 x 41 cm.
Image source : a Quebec can of maple syrup.
2006
Group of six paintings: oil paint on linen mounted on plywood, 92 x 46 cm each.
Process : 7 young women took part in a body painting session. The decor was of abstract coloured walls and chairs. The clothes were kept minimal and the hair was coloured. Even though not directing their each move, I encouraged them to think of power as an innate feminine quality and improvise on it. I took hundreds of shots. 12 chosen photographs were part of an end of century art calendar. Because these were so poignant I decided to perpetuate them and return them to painting in a Beaux-Arts manner. Titles include Le Roi des rois, Stigmates, Affres, Collusion, L’Enfant-Roi and Le traité.
2006
A black and white 12 section painting, acrylic on plywood, 86 x 116 cm, each square 26 x 26 cm.
Process : 12 squares refer to the 12 days of the 1956 Hungarian Insurrection. What seems like a bicycle ride in a rural landscape holds between the apparent shapes, tiny scenes of the uprising taken from historical documents.
2006
Acrylic on canvas stapled on recycled plywood, 160 x 152 cm.
Image source: female model and personal pictures.
2006
Acrylic on canvas stapled on recycled plywood, 170 x 160 cm.
Image source: female model and personal pictures.
2002
Group of 45 paintings, tempera and acrylic on raw cotton, 61,5 x 61,5 cm each.
Image source: personal pictures.
2002
Set of four drawings: wood chips, lead pencil on mounted canvas on plywood, 152 x61 cm each.
Image source : the background is sprinkled with wood chips that stuck occidentally to the gesso, a female model in front of a loft window, urban landscape.
photo credit: photo Guy L’Heureux.
2001
Acrylic on floating canvas, 245 x 214 cm.
Image source: drippings technique inspired by Francis Bacon’s interpretation of Le pape Innocent X (1953) originally painted by Diego Velásquez in 1649.
2001
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 110 cm.
2001
Acrylic on canvas stapled to a rectangular wooden block, 122 x 245 x 30 cm.
Process: sketching on site with male model. Once fully painted, an extra layer of finger paint was applied all over which served to mask the image. In front of an audience, this layer was scraped off, revealing slowly the underlying image.
1999
Grouping of approx. 45 x 50 x 25cm sculptures: bust made of milk carton patchwork; pastry box, plaster, acrylic; folder case, ice, moulded breast, acrylic; plaster of Paris bust, gauze cotton bandages, acrylic.
1999
Liquid latex and hair from a fur coat on mounted canvas on wood, 80 x54 cm.
photo credit: photo Guy L’Heureux.
1999
Fabric dies on cotton, various sizes.
1999
Lead pencil, crayons and charcoal on paper, various sizes.
1998
Natural clay sculptures set in a landscape, approx. 60 cm3 each.
1998
Colour print, 30 x 45 cm.
Process: a one-shot pose with a body painted model in marble colours.
1998
Prints taken with a Yashica double lens reflex camera, 13,5 x 13,5 each.
Process : snapshots taken when walking through the Old Port of Montreal in company of a blue body painted young man.
1997
Triptych : a mixed media composition with soil, leather belt, garbage bag; an aerial black and white photography; a black and white photography of a TV screen, 61 x 61cm each.
Image source : a photography taken by plane over Montreal; a freeze-frame taken from the television showing a handcuffed person spitting into the camera on the daily news.
1997
Five colour prints laminated on masonite, 1,53 x 2,44 x 0,8 m
Process : two body painted young women and a young man spent time chatting and laying around in an allover painted room while my camera was waiting for a shot that would challenge our perception of gravity. To give a sense of depth to the final photography, drippings were painted on strips of canvas, photographed, then the prints laminated on the four sides of the frame.
Quotation from Lucinda Catchlove : « une photographe illusionniste […] qui mélange photographie, peinture et costume pour créer des images uniques qui célèbrent la beauté et l’humanité en même temps qu’elle repousse les conventions et limites esthétiques de ces médiums avec un humour effervescent ». Exhibition catalogue of L’entrespace/The space between, Saidye Bronfman Centre.
1997
Three colour prints laminated on masonite, galvanized steel frames, 1,53 x 1,53 x 0,21 each.
Process: a group of large photographs part of Follicules, an exhibition in collaboration with Nathalie Fontaine. Once body painted three friends entertained themselves in an all over painted room.
Quotation from Lucinda Catchlove:
« Rather than defining, documenting or categorizing, as photography often does, Fékété’s work is about the painterly manner of seeing, focusing on and expanding the painterly object into the photographic medium ». Cathlove, Lucinda, Hour Montreal, « It’s alive, Sofie Fékété uses the camera to find painting’s soul. », Vol 5, No 20, May 15-21, 1997.
1996
Selection of prints partially altered.
Process : prints developed before the digital era with some having been altered by natural processes like microscopic mushrooms and others accidentally by chemicals.
1996
Acrylic on sheet of transparent acrylic medium, black and white print on sheet of transparent acrylic medium, rusted iron frame, 210 x 305 x 25 cm.
Image source: animal and nude self-portrait from personal pictures.
1996
Acrylic on canvas, 152 x 170 cm.
Image source: two female models.
1996
Acrylic on canvas, patronymic band made of coloured threads, 152 x 152 cm.
Image source: personal pictures.
1996
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 60 cm.
Image source: two female models.
1996
Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 120 cm.
Image source: media.
1996
Juxtaposition of two versions of the same composition, acrylic on paper, 55 x 39 cm each.
Image source: media.
1996
Acrylic on unfixed canvas, 152 x 180 cm.
Image source: personal pictures.
1996
Acrylic on canvas, 58 x 50 cm.
Image source: personal picture.