SAMSON PENOT
Visual artist.
Samson Penot is a French visual artist.
He lives and works in Bayonne, in the Basque Country, where he develops a sculptural practice centered on wood.
His works, both bas-reliefs and three-dimensional pieces, explore the way time and memory imprint themselves in matter and within us.
Through his series (Galets, INS//TEMPS), he explores how time shapes matter and resonates with our own transformations. His work gives an essential place to structure, to the frame, conceived not as a limit but as a space that reveals and organizes form, allowing for its elaboration and development.
Jun 2025 | Cinema Le Royal. Biarritz.
Aug 2025 | Aberdeen Record. Biarritz.
Sept 2025 | Chateau Du Bec Du Gave. Port de Lanne.
Sept 2025 | Sophie Leiser Gallery.
Dec 2025 | Art3 Fair Bordeaux
Samson Penot is a French visual artist.
He lives and works in Bayonne, in the Basque Country, where he develops a sculptural practice centered on wood.
His works, both bas-reliefs and three-dimensional pieces, explore the way time and memory imprint themselves in matter and within us.
Through his series (Galets, INS//TEMPS), he explores how time shapes matter and resonates with our own transformations.
His work gives an essential place to structure, to the frame, conceived not as a limit but as a space that reveals and organizes form, allowing for its elaboration and development.
Events - Expos - Gallery
Jun 2025 | Cinema Le Royal. Biarritz.
Aug 2025 | Aberdeen Record. Biarritz.
Sept 2025 | Chateau Du Bec Du Gave. Port de Lanne.
Sept 2025 | Sophie Leiser Gallery.
Dec 2025 | Art3 Fair Bordeaux
Picking up a pebble, letting it roll between your fingers, keeping it for no reason. This simple gesture reveals something about our connection to time, to matter, to ourselves.
Sophie Leiser Gallery - Ongoing series
GALETS
Picking up a galet, letting it roll between your fingers, keeping it for no reason without really knowing why. This simple gesture reveals something about our connection to matter, to time, to ourselves.
This series explores the way time imprints itself on matter.
Ongoing series
New pieces are regularly added to this series.
Here, the ocean pauses. Fragments isolate the movement of the swell, like samples taken from time itself.
What appears to stand still is not, and in each fragment the movement persists.
Sophie Leiser Gallery - Ongoing series
INS // TEMPS
Here, the ocean pauses. Fragments isolate the movement of the swell, like samples taken from time itself.
What appears to stand still is not, in each fragment the movement persists, shaped by what precedes it as much as by what it moves toward.
In this series, the present moment becomes a movement in which we are immersed, and which continues to act within us.
Ongoing series
New pieces are regularly added to this series.
In Dutch, STRAAT means “the street”, the place where people cross paths and where life unfolds.
In French, STRATE suggests layering, accumulated memory, the traces left by time. Two words that echo one another and give their name to a new series in which Samson Penot explores the connection between genealogy and memory.
STRAAT
In Dutch, STRAAT means “the street”, the place where people cross paths.
In French, STRAT suggests layering, accumulated memory, the traces left by time.
Ongoing series - Spring 2026
A series where genealogy and memory intersect, carried by two words that echo one another.