Sophia Pompéry
24 Feb - 21 Apr 2013
SOPHIA POMPÉRY
ATÖLYE
Curated by Elke Gruhn and Sara Stehr
24 February - 21 April 2013
Looking through a small hole in the wall can sometimes unsuspectedly open up a whole world which no longer lets go. Is it possible to capture the atmosphere of a place, its history and at the same time timelessness in a work of art?
The Kunstverein Wiesbaden presents with ATÖLYE the first institutional solo exhibition by Sophia Pompéry in Germany. Her work, moving through the media video, photography, object and installation, often captures diffuse moods and situations and plays with encrypted motifs, providing surprising punch lines after detailed reflection. Involving physical laws, she evokes unusual perspectives on the everyday and launches poetic processes. On the occasion of a stay grant in Istanbul 2012, Sophia Pompéry made a series of new works are linked closely to the location of the experience and invite to reflect on space and time at the Kunstverein.
Sophia Pompéry opens the atmospherically dense exhibition tour with a series of photographs, the motiv―a sailing ship on the mist-shrouded sea―allows multiple metaphorical associations, enhanced by the openness of the situation, the where and whereto remains unanswered still. The relief images WELTEN are painted on relief maps and are without geographical clues challenging the viewers to their own location. The structure of space and time is defined by the laws of physics and gains liability in everyday life through regulatory standards. But how should one respond when contrary to parameters and habits we are suddenly faced with surprising deviations? TWO METERS and LITTLE ERRORS explores this question. The space-filling video installation ATÖLYE draws, as well as the video work of CIRRUSCUMULUS, on the trompe-l'oeil. Recordings from an Armenian plasterer workshop, which for generations has produced ornaments for the facades of Istanbul, mingle with the sounds of the city forming a place that seems to be strangely near and yet far, beautiful and melancholic at the same time. The tour is intermitted again and again by moving portraits sometimes stern, sometimes with an ironic smile of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Sophia Pompéry (born 1984 in Berlin) studied from 2002 to 2009 at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee under Karin Sander, Eran Schaerf and as master student of Antje Majewski. From 2009 to 2010, she took part at the Institute für Raumexperimente by Olafur Eliasson at the Universität der Künste, Berlin. Her works were on display in various group exhibitions in Germany and abroad, and in solo exhibitions, among others in the Gitte Weise Gallery Berlin (2010), Wozownia Gallery in the Polish Torun (2011) and most recently at ARTER Space for Art in Istanbul (2012). 2011 Sophia Pompéry was awarded with the Toni and Albrecht Kumm Prize for the promotion of fine arts. 2012, she was a fellow of the DAAD art program with a six-month stay in Istanbul. She lives and works in Berlin and Istanbul.
ATÖLYE
Curated by Elke Gruhn and Sara Stehr
24 February - 21 April 2013
Looking through a small hole in the wall can sometimes unsuspectedly open up a whole world which no longer lets go. Is it possible to capture the atmosphere of a place, its history and at the same time timelessness in a work of art?
The Kunstverein Wiesbaden presents with ATÖLYE the first institutional solo exhibition by Sophia Pompéry in Germany. Her work, moving through the media video, photography, object and installation, often captures diffuse moods and situations and plays with encrypted motifs, providing surprising punch lines after detailed reflection. Involving physical laws, she evokes unusual perspectives on the everyday and launches poetic processes. On the occasion of a stay grant in Istanbul 2012, Sophia Pompéry made a series of new works are linked closely to the location of the experience and invite to reflect on space and time at the Kunstverein.
Sophia Pompéry opens the atmospherically dense exhibition tour with a series of photographs, the motiv―a sailing ship on the mist-shrouded sea―allows multiple metaphorical associations, enhanced by the openness of the situation, the where and whereto remains unanswered still. The relief images WELTEN are painted on relief maps and are without geographical clues challenging the viewers to their own location. The structure of space and time is defined by the laws of physics and gains liability in everyday life through regulatory standards. But how should one respond when contrary to parameters and habits we are suddenly faced with surprising deviations? TWO METERS and LITTLE ERRORS explores this question. The space-filling video installation ATÖLYE draws, as well as the video work of CIRRUSCUMULUS, on the trompe-l'oeil. Recordings from an Armenian plasterer workshop, which for generations has produced ornaments for the facades of Istanbul, mingle with the sounds of the city forming a place that seems to be strangely near and yet far, beautiful and melancholic at the same time. The tour is intermitted again and again by moving portraits sometimes stern, sometimes with an ironic smile of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Sophia Pompéry (born 1984 in Berlin) studied from 2002 to 2009 at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee under Karin Sander, Eran Schaerf and as master student of Antje Majewski. From 2009 to 2010, she took part at the Institute für Raumexperimente by Olafur Eliasson at the Universität der Künste, Berlin. Her works were on display in various group exhibitions in Germany and abroad, and in solo exhibitions, among others in the Gitte Weise Gallery Berlin (2010), Wozownia Gallery in the Polish Torun (2011) and most recently at ARTER Space for Art in Istanbul (2012). 2011 Sophia Pompéry was awarded with the Toni and Albrecht Kumm Prize for the promotion of fine arts. 2012, she was a fellow of the DAAD art program with a six-month stay in Istanbul. She lives and works in Berlin and Istanbul.