SOFIA CLAUSSE
I like to think of the process in the studio as a line or path that I’m always following to see where it takes me next. I don’t know where it’s going, I simply follow it with wonder and questions. The art is always ahead of myself, and I’m following it to understand it.
“I like to use paper a lot, because it’s very transformative, it can have so many different qualities and behaviors depending on how it’s treated. But most of the other materials in studio are also always transforming and circulating, and it’s helpful to think of any elements like letters or symbols to be material, in the way that anything can be moulded and changed and explored with.”
I think that home is the perfect place for art, it’s really nice living with a work of art and growing and changing with it. I also think we should make our homes into physical expressions of the things that we like and that call our attention and unique pieces of art is a great way of making a home idiosyncratic and specific to one’s world.
Sofía Clausse (b. 1989, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a multidisciplinary artist based in London, UK. She completed her BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design (2014), and the postgraduate program in Fine Arts at the Royal Academy Schools in London (2022). Following her graduation show at the Royal Academy of Arts, Clausse was awarded the Almacantar Art Prize providing her with a free studio in London for a year. Most recently, she was selected for an artist grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2023).
Clausse’s thinking is guided by textile logic and a circular use of material. Her work is influenced by the history of Latin American weaving and concrete poetry, as well as systemic and generative processes. All of which she employs, creating a visual cosmos that explores what it means to belong and become while constantly changing.
Her practice is a research into cycles, time, repetition, language, lines and transformation; using painting, paper, text and ceramics. Custom tools and systems are continuously invented to create an ongoing visual lexicon that collapses the distinction between semantics and semiotics—symbols and meanings endlessly contain each other. Elements interweave and extend like a labyrinthic path across the practice, and what was discovered or what remains of one piece informs and transforms into the next.
Clausse’s work has been the subject of international solo exhibitions at Municipal Bonds, San Francisco (20233, Slugtown Gallery, Newcastle, UK (2022); Eve Leibe Gallery, London (2021); and Kupfer, curated by Inês Geraldes Cardoso, London (2021). She has exhibited in group shows in the UK and US including: Where's the Frame, London (2022); Grove Collective, London (2021); Guts Gallery, London (2021); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2020); Eve Leibe Gallery (2020); Nationale Gallery, Portland, OR (2020); Special Special Gallery, New York, NY (2020); Koppel Project Exchange, London (2020); The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ, London (2019); Ginny Projects, London (2019). Upcoming, Clausse will take part in a two-month residency at PADA Studios in Lisbon, Portugal (2023).
