ANOTHER GAZE
With Bestiole – Another Gaze, Sonac continues her exploration of a sensitive dialogue between humans and the living world. This series focuses on creatures we rarely notice — small, discreet beings we pass by without seeing. But there is no naturalism here, no documentary context: freed from their environment, Sonac’s bestioles appear to float in a timeless, placeless void, as if summoned from a dream or a shadow play.
Lit with theatrical precision and isolated against a black background, these tiny creatures become striking presences. Their strangeness is both captivating and unsettling. Far from clichés, they reveal unexpected aesthetic potential — textures, antennae, carapaces, translucence — evoking the world of jewelry, science fiction, or cabinets of curiosities. Through this silent confrontation, Sonac opens up new spaces. She invites us to look again, and differently.
This is not a bestiary, nor an entomological collection. It is a poetic work — at once fragile and disquieting — that questions our relationship to the world, to nature, to the marginal and the minuscule. By restoring visibility to these discreet beings, Sonac upends value systems. The infinitesimal becomes monumental. What was once deemed undesirable now holds unexpected beauty. She doesn’t seek to explain — she suggests, she evokes, she stirs the imagination. The viewer is drawn in, disoriented, brought into a sensory relationship with lifeforms they had ceased to notice.
This body of work is part of a broader practice grounded in attention, slowness, observation, and humility. By revealing an aesthetic potential already present in nature, Sonac does not merely capture images — she provokes emotion. Her portraits create a gentle tension between fascination and fragility, between organic beauty and a diffuse unease.
Bestiole celebrates the ephemeral, the fleeting, the overlooked — everything that escapes a hurried gaze. It is a silent ode to life, to resilience, to what still trembles in the shadows.
