18 Questions With...
Yoan Sorin

May 20, 2025

Yoan Sorin

18 Questions With...
Yoan Sorin

May 20, 2025 Leave a comment

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Yoan Sorin

"18 Questions With" is an interview series featuring the artists, curators, and gallerists driving art's next wave.

Yoan Sorin is a French multidisciplinary artist based in Arles. He works in drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, video and performance, giving each medium equal weight. Sorin’s projects start in densely filled sketchbooks and evolve into what he calls “exploded mythologies”: precise reconstructions of personal and cultural stories that he tears apart and rebuilds. By collaging everyday images, slogans and found objects, he deliberately erases borders between high art and popular culture, and between finished artwork and fleeting gesture, making each piece read like a diary entry laid open to the public.

Q01:

What’s a skill you’re working on mastering?

A01:

Patience.

Q02:

What’s your favorite way to rest or decompress?

A02:

Moving furniture.

Q03:

What’s the most adventurous thing you’ve done in your life?

A03:

Becoming a father.

Q04:

What's inspiring you right now?

A04:

My kids.

<p><em>No Love Deep Web</em> (2012), by Death Grips</p> — *No Love Deep Web* (2012), by Death Grips

Q05:

What are you listening to in your studio?

A05:

No Love Deep Web by Death Grips.

Q06:

If you could collaborate with any artist, past or present, who would it be?

A06:

Curtis Cuffie and Vivian Suter.

Q07:

What's a dream project you haven't tackled yet?

A07:

Designing a kids' playground.

Q08:

What's one thing about the art world that you think people misunderstand?

A08:

Sacrifice.

Q09:

What’s the best advice you’ve ever received as an artist?

A09:

Do what you want.

Q10:

What’s one thing people don’t know about you?

A10:

I don’t know what I’m doing most of the time, and when I do, I do the opposite.

Q11:

What's the first thing you notice about people?

A11:

What they are doing with their hands.

Q12:

What’s the best compliment you’ve ever received?

A12:

« You are so funny »

Q13:

Favorite libation?

A13:

Ti' punch.

<p><em>The Queer Art of Failure</em> (2011), by Jack Halberstam</p> — *The Queer Art of Failure* (2011), by Jack Halberstam

Q14:

A book that everyone should read?

A14:

The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam.

Q15:

What's a vice you wish you could give up?

A15:

Nothing, I’m ok with my vices.

Q16:

Favorite city?

A16:

I enjoyed every place I have been. I don’t need much.

Q17:

Do you like surprises?

A17:

Yes, a lot.

Q18:

What’s the biggest learning experience you’ve had?

A18:

Working in a psychiatric hospital.

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