Sophie Inard is a French contemporary artist based in Paris.

She is drawn to objects that already hold power over us, objects we desire, fear, admire or obsess over. A boxing glove, a gun, a football, a luxury bag, a motorcycle: familiar objects that have become larger than themselves, charged with fantasies of performance, status, violence, beauty or desire.

She selects them, then captures them in her own nets.

Crocheted entirely by hand, stitch by stitch, these nets grow around the object until they become a second skin. They can protect or constrain, reveal or conceal, embellish or suffocate. The object remains recognizable, but our relationship to it begins to shift.

What happens to an icon once it is caught? Does it still hold the same power over us?

This tension lies at the heart of Sophie Inard's practice. Strength meets fragility. Desire meets restraint. Industrial objects meet the slow, intimate gesture of the hand. Rather than resolving these contradictions, she holds them together and lets the viewer decide what remains.

Her practice extends from sculpture to photography and site-specific installation. At larger scales, the crocheted net moves beyond the object to take hold of architecture and space itself.

Making is also a collective process. For ambitious sculptures and installations, Sophie Inard works with women of different generations and backgrounds, while her photographic projects often begin with spontaneous encounters. These relationships become part of the work and of the worlds she constructs around each piece.

Her work has been exhibited in France and internationally, notably at the McNay Art Museum (San Antonio, USA) as part of the exhibition Sport & Spectator (2025), and is currently presented at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, June–December 2026). She has also collaborated with brands such as Merci and Harley-Davidson Paris.