Sonia Léontieff is a talented multidisciplinary artist known for her unique blend of illustrations, animations, and performances. With a focus on creativity and innovation, she brings her artistic vision to life through various mediums.

Artist’s Statement

The world has aligned itself to the dictatorship of the image and the theatrical coup. Through my work, I seek a place of reconciliation with the transcendental nature of the spirit—a countercurrent journey exploring diverse forms of expression. Inspired by psychoanalysis, the initiatory voyage, and sublimation, I draw on theater and cinema, where the image becomes a language of symbols. I lament the superficiality of our neoliberal civilization, this “society of the spectacle” described by Guy Debord, and embark on an infinite quest toward profound being. My approach aims to escape Cartesian rationalism to liberate the unconscious and poetry. I invite the viewer to dive into the “deep sea of the inner voice,” following the trail of the “self-fish” evoked by Wajdi Mouawad—an call to infinite poetic reverie, the foundation of all creation. In this introspective and rebellious approach, I strive to transcend the visible to approach the invisible, making creation a space of freedom, rediscovered unity, and antidote to perpetual distraction.

Artist’s Approach

Léontieff claims a countercurrent research, guided by the desire to reconcile spirit and matter, the visible and the invisible. Inspired by psychoanalysis, the initiatory voyage, theater, and cinema, she questions the dictatorship of the image in our “spectacular” society, denouncing neoliberal superficiality that favors visual shock over profound meaning.

Her work acts as a poetic antidote: an infinite quest toward the unconscious, reverie, and inner listening. She invites the viewer to plunge into the “deep sea of the inner voice,” following the