The works of Sabine DELAHAUT restore and enhance collective memory with the aim of fostering a sense of belonging to a living community. They prompt the viewer to reflect on the evolution of a society that increasingly leads the individual to isolation, to an inability to communicate with peers, the environment, or oneself.
By creating a universal database intended to be timeless, she offers everyone the opportunity to merge their personal legend into a common foundation.
Her creations come to life through the accumulation of hybrid images taken from the street, current events, or our past, crafting a graphic universe with contrasting surrealist accents. The staging of the space in which her narratives unfold is of great importance.
The artist, who insists that technique should not overshadow the message, delights in deliberately creating a fusion/confusion between media, blurring the boundaries between engraving and drawing.
The multiple readings and interpretations her works allow facilitate a triangular interaction between the work, the viewer, and the artist, who is enriched by these exchanges.
Visual artist and engraver, Sabine DELAHAUT restores and enhances collective memory with the aim of uniting around the feeling of belonging to a living community. By creating a universal database from narrative, poetic, contemporary or mythological images, it allows everyone to blend their personal legend into a common base.
She began her artistic career in 2006, at the Atelier Contrepoint in Paris where she was an assistant for four years. There she discovered the chisel, whose clear and precise line inspired her to tell stories around the antagonism between nature and culture. At this time, she met Cécile Reims, a renowned engraver who selected her for the exhibition: Passage of the baton, Cécile Reims and the engravers from the 15th to the 21st century, elective affinities, at the Musée de l'Hospice St-Roch in Issoudun (2012 ).
His works are presented at numerous exhibitions in France and internationally. She received several awards including the Grand Prix of the International Biennial of Contemporary Prints of Trois-Rivières (Québec) in 2017. In 2019, Maison CHAUMET entrusted her with the creation of an engraved work in relation to a historic jewel of its collection. In 2023, she is curator of the 3rd edition of MORSURE at the Fouesnant Archipelago; she also collaborates with the magazine “ACTUEL, l’Estampe Contemporaine” and at the Beirut Printmaking Studio, in Lebanon.
Artwork from SABINE DELAHAUT
Exhibitions from SABINE DELAHAUT
