Françoise Abraham has been dancing since she was six years old and was a great dancer at the Paris Opera but she stopped at the same time she discovered sculpture in 1993. She soon dedicated herself exclusively to sculpture, her new passion. Her great curiosity keeps her in a permanent search for new forms.

Recognized first by professionals, her creations soon become very successful to a larger public. In 1995, Françoise Abraham discovered marble- its delicacy, its strength, its constraints and its rewards.

All that she had already experienced in dance she tried to translate in to her sculpture: the movement, the equilibrium, the composition of line and forms. Even the empty spaces in the sculptures and around them help to complete the composition. Each sculpture is worked with different patina which makes it unique as well as being of a small limited edition of 8.

Founded on her training in classical dance, Abraham's figures relate more than  anything  else  to the sculptures of dancers by Degas  who in some cases used poses from the photographs of Muybridge  ... Of  course  the  indisputable connection  between   the   three  is   their interest  in movement.

Her sculptures break the equilibrium, without losing it  ... the result is neither inactivity nor movement, but a combination of the two, a suspension, just like sliding on ice. This suspension in most of Abraham’s figures camouflages a dream of flying (the liberation of the soul) as a compromise for the struggle between physics and metaphysics.