Anne-Cécile Surga is a contemporary sculptor whose practice engages the body as a site of perception through the medium of marble.
Working with a material historically associated with idealized and stable forms, she approaches marble as a field of resistance—where weight, density, and constraint actively shape the emergence of form. Her process is grounded in a direct, physical negotiation with the material, in which gesture, pressure, and trace operate as modes of thinking.
Her sculptures do not represent the body but articulate conditions of embodiment. Through shifts in balance, tension, compression, and fragmentation, they translate internal states into spatial and material configurations. Form is understood as the result of forces rather than as image.
Drawing from embodied cognition and phenomenological thought, her work situates perception as a bodily process. The sculptures function as thresholds: they engage the viewer through scale, proximity, and orientation, activating a haptic and spatial awareness that exceeds the visual.
By confronting the historical permanence and authority of marble, Surga destabilizes its conventions, introducing instability, vulnerability, and transformation. The material is not treated as a neutral support but as an active agent, where making becomes a process of negotiation between control and resistance.
Her work proposes a sculptural language in which form is not fixed but contingent—emerging from the interaction between body, material, and perception.