Samson Penot develops a sculptural practice centered on wood. His bas-reliefs, wall sculptures, and three-dimensional works explore how time imprints itself onto matter through various phenomena of transformation. Erosion, sedimentation, and aging are all ways of making palpable the work of time as it passes, acts, and leaves its mark, both within the material and in our lives. Each layer acts as a mirror to our histories, and each irregularity reflects the transformations that shape us from within.
Across his various series, his artworks make visible that space where time leaves its mark without ever announcing itself. They materialize these intimate landscapes where time flows by without truly disappearing, connecting the memory contained within the material to our own inner journeys.
STATEMENT
Samson Penot develops a sculptural practice centered on wood. His bas-reliefs, wall sculptures, and three-dimensional works explore how time imprints itself onto matter through various phenomena of transformation. Erosion, sedimentation, and aging are all ways of making palpable the work of time as it passes, acts, and leaves its mark, both within the material and in our lives. Each layer acts as a mirror to our histories, and each irregularity reflects the transformations that shape us from within.
Across his various series, his artworks make visible that space where time leaves its mark without ever announcing itself. They materialize these intimate landscapes where time flows by without truly disappearing, connecting the memory contained within the material to our own inner journeys.
BIOGRAPHY
Samson Penot, born in Paris in 1984, lives and works in his studio in Bayonne, in the Basque Country. After a first career dedicated to music composition, he now develops a sculptural practice centered around wood, working with bas-reliefs, wall sculptures and volumes.
For more than thirteen years, he composed and produced around a dozen albums for Kosinus and Universal Music, in the field of production music. At the same time, he began working with wood and marquetry, first through objects and lighting pieces, before gradually directing this research towards sculpture and wall reliefs.
In 2021, a two-year solo journey on his sailboat marked a turning point in his practice. He then left the world of music to devote himself fully to his sculptural activity. Since settling in Bayonne, he has developed several series around matter, time and transformation.
Represented by Galerie Sophie Leiser in Biarritz and by ART[s] Gallery in the Netherlands, his work has been shown in galleries, cultural events and contemporary art fairs in France and across Europe, including Lausanne Art Fair in Switzerland and Luxembourg Art Fair.
Samson Penot, born in Paris in 1984, lives and works in his studio in Bayonne, in the Basque Country. After a first career dedicated to music composition, he now develops a sculptural practice centered around wood, working with bas-reliefs, wall sculptures and volumes.
For more than thirteen years, he composed and produced around a dozen albums for Kosinus and Universal Music, in the field of production music. At the same time, he began working with wood and marquetry, first through objects and lighting pieces, before gradually directing this research towards sculpture and wall reliefs.
In 2021, a two-year solo journey on his sailboat marked a turning point in his practice. He then left the world of music to devote himself fully to his sculptural activity. Since settling in Bayonne, he has developed several series around matter, time and transformation.
Represented by Galerie Sophie Leiser in Biarritz and by ART[s] Gallery in the Netherlands, his work has been shown in galleries, cultural events and contemporary art fairs in France and across Europe, including Lausanne Art Fair in Switzerland and Luxembourg Art Fair.