Cha Sandrine N’cho

Presentation

Born in 1992 in Côte d'Ivoire, Cha Sandrine N'cho is a versatile visual artist whose artistic inspiration is rooted in the exploration of the female body. Her artistic practice spans various media, including painting, photography, and video performance, allowing her to address multiple dimensions of the body in contemporary art. By using her own body as both a canvas and a creative instrument, she questions the role and representation of the body in today's society. Through this exploration, Cha Sandrine creates a dialogue between the body and its environment, while embedding her work within an introspective journey that revisits humanity and explores connections between personal identity and universality. The artist integrates elastic, malleable textile materials to envelop and transform her body. This depersonalized, anonymous figure then takes on a universal presence, offering countless possibilities for illustrating both collective and personal imagination. These textiles, with their flexibility, allow the body to express itself through complex poses and intentional scenes, which she uses to challenge concepts of constraint and freedom. By concealing her body, Cha Sandrine invites viewers to contemplate the tension between what is revealed and what is hidden, highlighting themes of space, limitation, and personal emancipation. In her approach, the conceptual pair "body-space" is paired with "space-time," encouraging reflection on the boundaries imposed by physical and spatial environments. Cha Sandrine explores how these constraints can uncover new facets of personality and human expression. Through this artistic process, she examines how spatial and material restrictions contribute to a redefinition of the body, turning it into a tool for philosophical and introspective reflection. Time, a central element in her artistic process, plays a role at each stage of her work: in the staging of the body, in moments of pause, and in the critical instant of capturing a pose. Time thus becomes a component of her work, adding rhythm to her visual and performative narrative. Through her photographic concept, Cha Sandrine employs video performance to transform her body into a unique visual language—a "body-alphabet" with its own codes and meanings. Cha Sandrine N'cho's work celebrates the singularity of the body and offers a thoughtful exploration of individual freedom and emancipation. She presents a bold artistic perspective on the female body, reinvented in its quest for freedom. Her work speaks to those seeking to understand the intersection of art, the body, and contemporary society, offering a reflection rich in symbolism and universal questioning.