Post/No/Bills #3

As with many young creatives, these past years have affected Sophie and her practice greatly. She is going through a self-proclaimed transition, evolution, a break in time, a pause. She is in-between.

This tendency can be signaled among many of her peers. There is a whole generation that is lost and searching. Social media has recently been full of themes such as rest, pause, healing, care, looking for inspiration, self-rediscovery, and questions of origins. It’s often not about dualities such as positive or negative, rather an introspection on the precarity and instability itself.

The visual and textual experiments in Sophie’s work represent many of these reflections. In ‘Follow The Black Rabbit’ Sophie is inviting us to enter a dream world. Triggered by social shakedowns of the past two years — the struggle for civil rights and racial equity, financial and social insecurities, a health pandemic and the resulting debilitating lockdowns — Sophie inverts the Alice in Wonderland myth giving it a political twist to reflect the real world. It is celebratory and melancholy at the same time.

The presentation comprises immersive wall prints of her work, filling the arches of the corridor in the heart of the museum — the patterns finding a place literally in between the structures of the museum. Sophie also showcases videos containing words evoking the mindfulness slogans currently popular on social media. A meditative mantra for our current reality.