BREST.- Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, forms part of the initiative whereby an artist is invited each year to design an exhibition that will encourage visitors to the Centre for Contemporary Art to touch and interact with the works.

Sophie Cure is an artist, graphic designer and typographer. She sees language as a living thing to play with. Her adaptable objects spark pleasure in reading, deciphering, understanding, looking at everyday things in a new way. She includes elections for the word of the day, a Scrabble® tray with changeable letters, ideas in black to colour in, and reading sonatas. Her creations almost always involve a game. For Sophie Cure, this motivates the creative urge, it’s a state of mind, a tool that favours sharing and learning, allowing the unexpected to emerge.

In this exhibition she invites us to plunge into an immersive landscape with multiple meanings. It’s a protected area where words are raised on high, cherished, welcomed, stripped bare, and listened to with curiosity. It’s then up to us to play with the ebb and flow of the language, to dive into the long words, to wander freely, chatter away, sail close to the wind or allow ourselves to be carried along on the drift.

Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, forms part of the initiative whereby an artist is invited each year to design an exhibition that will encourage visitors to the Centre for Contemporary Art to touch and interact with the works.

Sophie Cure is an artist, graphic designer and typographer. She sees language as a living thing to play with. Her adaptable objects spark pleasure in reading, deciphering, understanding, looking at everyday things in a new way. She includes elections for the word of the day, a Scrabble® tray with changeable letters, ideas in black to colour in, and reading sonatas. Her creations almost always involve a game. For Sophie Cure, this motivates the creative urge, it’s a state of mind, a tool that favours sharing and learning, allowing the unexpected to emerge.

In this exhibition she invites us to plunge into an immersive landscape with multiple meanings. It’s a protected area where words are raised on high, cherished, welcomed, stripped bare, and listened to with curiosity. It’s then up to us to play with the ebb and flow of the language, to dive into the long words, to wander freely, chatter away, sail close to the wind or allow ourselves to be carried along on the drift.

After working in Amsterdam with Richard Niessen& Esther de Vries, Sophie Cure set up as a graphic designer at the end of 2012. A graduate of ENSAAMA in Paris, she designs projects such as graphic identities, books, magazines and games in various fields, from architecture to publishing, from the world of spirits to that of the press. She collaborates with public institutions, artists and various structures such as Le Signe, Centre National du Graphisme, the French Ministry of Culture, the Centre Pompidou, the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Télérama... Sophie Cure works on boundaries between reading and music, typography and musical notation. Her experience of theater, dance and music has given her a new approach to language. The objects she designs are often the result of an attraction to language that resists semantics and succumbs to music. From project to project, a shift takes place towards a more cross- disciplinary approach to visual research, in which the question of play plays a central role.


1 Extract from a poem by Clara Ysé, taken from the collection Des lances entre les phalanges, Éditions Seghers, October 2025