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IRK MAGAZINE. July 2025

SOPHIE INARD’S POWER IN THREAD

Sophie Inard’s power in thread. Crochet becomes rebellion, poetry, and quiet resistance. In fact, Sophie Inard doesn’t just soften objects, she rewires their aura. Although crochet is often dismissed as decorative, she transforms icons of power into emotional relics. Boxing gloves, skateboards, and luxury bags become strange, tender monuments. As a result, the domestic turns radical. Meanwhile, the absurd becomes intimate. Power, ultimately, loses its armor.

SOPHIE INARD: A UNIVERSE OF CONTRASTS

“My work revolves around contrast,” says Inard. She wraps objects charged with dominance, helmets, gloves, branded bags, in multicolored granny squares. Indeed, “There’s irony and poetry in this act.” A symbol of impact becomes soft, veiled, sometimes disarmed. Even though crochet is long associated with grandmothers and craft fairs, it becomes her weapon of choice. “It’s slow, feminine, underestimated. That’s why I use it.” At the same time, at the heart of her work lies a question: What do we protect, and why? “I like creating friction between the object and its new skin,” she explains. Therefore, her practice reveals while concealing, and elevates while disturbing.

SOPHIE INARD: SOURCES OF REBELLION

Sophie Inard draws inspiration from memory, absurdity, and quiet rebellion. “Red and blue carry so much weight,” she explains. Red is blood, love, danger. Blue is melancholy, distance, softness. Combined, they create emotional tension. She cites filmmakers and artists who destabilize norms: Buñuel, Kusturica, Vasconcelos, Maier. “I love when hierarchy collapses. When the powerful becomes absurd.” Crochet, for her, is not nostalgia, it’s subversion.

Reclaiming the icon. As a result, Sophie Inard wraps childhood and masculinity in soft armor. Meanwhile, between nostalgia and revolt, crochet becomes sculpture. Courtesy of Sophie Inard. “

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