Collection: SCHOENI Carole

Carole Schoeni's approach is based on a visceral relationship with matter, seen as a living entity with which she engages in a continuous dialogue. Each sculpture is born from an attentive, almost meditative face-to-face encounter, where the gesture seeks not to dominate but to reveal. The artist approaches the material with respect, giving the bronze, clay, or plaster time to breathe, to exist before taking shape.

At the heart of her research is the human figure, not as a simple motif but as a territory of emotion and memory. She explores its lines of force, its fragility, its silences. Her sculptures translate the intimate more than the appearance, a contained impulse, an inner tension, the trace of a breath. Through modeling, she captures the moment when the body seems to emerge from the material, as if life were slowly insinuating itself. Carole Schoeni's practice is nourished by an alternation between technical rigor and instinctive letting go. The work of volume, emptiness, and light on the surfaces testifies to a constant attention to the balance between power and delicacy. Each work becomes the site of a metamorphosis, the raw material transforms into presence and the form into palpable emotion.

This deeply embodied sculpture invites silent contemplation. It does not seek to narrate but to convey, through the density of a texture, the softness of a contour or the accuracy of an imbalance. In her studio in Switzerland, Carole Schoeni pursues a demanding quest for an authentic expression where gesture, material and human breath become one.