Past

Sophie Dupont: This Will Also Change

25 Aug – 21 Oct 2017

In her ritualised and strictly choreographed works, the artist’s background in dance and painting can clearly be sensed. Her performative work is often physically and mentally demanding, and based on entities like weight, balance and mass, just as central issues in painting, like the figure-ground relationship and abstraction and figuration, are brought into play. Influenced by 20th-century performance art and the avantgarde, as well as ‘primitive’ art, psychology and Eastern philosophy, these elements are used to explore reflections on the ways we are present in the world.

This Will Also Change is Sophie Dupont’s first major solo presentation. The conceptual framework is the movement between the horizontal and the vertical, a classical principle of composition, which here becomes a metaphor for our outer and inner life. Or, in the words of the artist, “as two directions we are eternally torn between – and understand ourselves through”. It is at the intersection of the two that Dupont presents a series of works that both expand upon and add new elements to her previous practice.