Isidore Bishop-Sauve

Isidore Bishop-Sauve creates large-scale paintings and small assemblages housed in cigarette tins, which they refer to as 'home boxes.' They perceive these boxes as time capsules, inviting the viewer to imagine them unearthed, thus witnessing the human effort to safeguard personal treasures that evoke a sense of home.   

Fascinated by climate fiction, film, and storytelling, Bishop-Sauve romanticises the concept of a mutated and more aggressive natural world, which serves as the setting for their paintings. These paintings often depict man-eating plants, abandoned, faulty machines, and overgrown relics of the Anthropocene. Intimate, homoerotic narratives thrive within their work, exploring the essence of queerness through the untamed nature they envision. This exploration is further reflected in the untamed nature of the paint itself.