Compression litteraire

With Literary Compression, Sophie Dumont offers a pure and symbolic vision of the book as a vessel of knowledge and collective memory. Through a dense vertical composition, where the works seem compressed against each other, the artist plastically translates the idea of an accumulation of knowledge, almost to the point of saturation.

Worked with oil and knife, the canvas presents rich textures and a subtle play of shades where natural tones coexist with more vibrant accents. This chromatic choice enhances the effect of depth and relief, giving each slice of book a palpable materiality, as if the work captured the history and time engraved in these silent volumes.

But beyond this representation, Literary Compression also questions our contemporary relationship with knowledge: in a world where information is accessible in an instant, how do we preserve the very essence of knowledge? This work encourages reflection on the transmission and preservation of culture, suggesting that books, even when compressed and abstract, continue to exist as timeless witnesses of human thought.

By transforming the library into an almost architectural structure, Sophie Dumont delivers a sensitive and powerful interpretation of the book as an intellectual imprint, where accumulation does not rhyme with confusion, but with the very essence of transmission.