She mainly works with painting, paper, diagrams, and ceramics, to create a visual cosmos of her research into time, repetition, cycles, and language. Having come from a background in design, her process in the studio is influenced by tools, systems, symbols, typography, textiles, and a circular way of working with materials.
Central to her research are ideas of interconnection and spirituality, which she explores in her diagrams. In these wall-based works, which are her form of concrete poetry, she combine text, symbols, and lines to generate a new form of reading and expressing information. Her paintings of looping lines explore ideas of cycles, infinity, and repetition, and they act like a labyrinth where one can get intentionally lost in order to find oneself and one's path once again.
This interweaving and knotted line is similar to the path taken in the studio, in which all the works are connected as if through an invisible looping line, always on the quest to see where else it will go, and what else it will become.
Clausse follows a circular and alchemical way of production in the studio – in which leftover material, learnings, or processes transform and become the next. In this way, all of the works come together to form a visual cosmos, where symbols, words, lines, material, and thoughts are enmeshed in constellations of meaning, through which to learn, listen, create, and transform.
Contact:
studio@sofiaclausse.com
instragram: @sofiaclausse
CV
Solo exhibitions
2023
Labyrinth at Municipal Bonds, San Francisco, California, USA. Link
2022
Soft Water at Slugtown, Newcastle, UK.
Royal Academy Schools Show 2022 at Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK. Link
Royal Academy Schools Show 2022 at Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK. Link
2021
Group exhibitions
2023
Hilo /'hilou/ at Cromwell Place, curated by Amalgama, London, UK. Link
2022
Distortion & Dissonance at Where's the Frame, London, UK.
2021
2020
Summer Exhibition 2020 at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK. Link
S.O.L. System of Language at Eve Leibe Gallery. Link
re:assembly at Nationale Gallery, Portland, USA. Link
Artists' Tools at Special Special Gallery, New York, USA. Link
Premiums Interim Projects at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK. Link
Textural Codes at Koppel Project Exchange, London, UK. Link
S.O.L. System of Language at Eve Leibe Gallery. Link
re:assembly at Nationale Gallery, Portland, USA. Link
Artists' Tools at Special Special Gallery, New York, USA. Link
Premiums Interim Projects at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK. Link
Textural Codes at Koppel Project Exchange, London, UK. Link
2019
LANDGRAB at The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK.
Ginny Projects x Sinkhole Project at a fence in Museum Gardens, London, UK. Link
Ginny Projects x Sinkhole Project at a fence in Museum Gardens, London, UK. Link
Grants, Awards, and Residencies
2023
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Upcoming residency at PADA Studios in Lisbon, Portugal.
Upcoming residency at PADA Studios in Lisbon, Portugal.
2022
Almacantar Studio Award and Prize
André Dunoyer de Segonzac Hon RA Prize
Eaton Fund Grant
André Dunoyer de Segonzac Hon RA Prize
Eaton Fund Grant
2020
British
Institution Award
Royal Academy Premiums Keeper's Prize
The Leverhulme Trust Bursary and Scholarship Fund
Royal Academy Premiums Keeper's Prize
The Leverhulme Trust Bursary and Scholarship Fund
2019
Louis Roederer et
Philippe Starck Award and Prize
Sir Frank and Lady Short Award
Ernest Cook Fund Bursary
Sir Frank and Lady Short Award
Ernest Cook Fund Bursary