Sofia Borges | it was a white and blazing blind fire
Preview: Thursday, 23 January 7.00pm
Galerie Kandlhofer is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Sofia Borges.
For over a decade Borges has been using the photographic medium to study philosophical notions and to question the mere act of representation itself. Her extensive field of research started at paleontology museums, caves and other spontaneous shrines of archetype archiving that more recently reached the limits between performance, collage, image and metaphysics.
Disconcertingly unfamiliar and unrelated objects are unified through her strong aesthetic language and subsequently further intertwined to the body of her work, always in a seemingly intrinsic manner.
Recent exhibitions include: Being: New Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2018); Curatorial project at 33rd São Paulo Biennial – Affective Affinities: The Infinite history of things or the end of the tragedy of One, São Paulo (2018); 7th Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu Arts Center, Daegu (2018); Il Coltello Nella Carne, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (PAC), Milan (2018); CORPO A CORPO, Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo (2017); Black Chalk and White Charcoal or The Myth of The Absent Matter, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam (2016); De Mineralis, pierres de visions, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône, Alpes (2015).
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Sofia Borges Theatre for Artifice, from Performances: to Become a Photograph, 2018 mineral pigment print on cotton paper 150 x 252 cm 59 1/8 x 99 1/4 in
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Sofia Borges Theatre for Artifice, 2018 Printed and mounted in January 2020, signed by the artist. Pigment print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth Rag 305g paper 150 x 243 cm Edition of 1 plus 1 artist's proof
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Sofia Borges Theatre for Artifice, 2018 Printed and mounted in January 2020, signed by the artist. Pigment print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth Rag 305g paper 150 x 225 cm 59 1/8 x 88 5/8 in Edition of 1 plus 1 artist's proof
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Sofia BorgesO irrevelável / The unrevealable, 2019Printed and mounted in January 2020, signed by the artist.Pigment print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth Rag 305g paper283 x 200 cm
111 3/8 x 78 3/4 inEdition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof (#2/2) -
Sofia BorgesO avesso irrevelável / The reversed unrevealable, 2019Printed and mounted in January 2020, signed by the artist.Pigment print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth Rag 305g paper304 x 200 cm
119 3/4 x 78 3/4 inEdition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof -
Sofia BorgesTragic Marble / Trágico Mármore, 2017/2020Printed and mounted in January 2020, signed by the artist.Pigment print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth Rag 305g paper40 x 60 cm
15 3/4 x 23 5/8 inEdition of 10 plus 2 artist's proof -
Sofia BorgesO Infinito / The Infinite, 2016Printed and mounted in January 2020, signed by the artist.Pigment print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth Rag 305g paper225 x 350 cm
88 5/8 x 137 3/4 inEdition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof -
Sofia BorgesCollage with Face, Door and the Absolute., 2019Printed and mounted in January 2020, signed by the artist.Pigment print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth Rag 305g paper225 x 150 cm
88 5/8 x 59 1/8 inEdition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof -
Sofia BorgesCollage with Sound, Sound, Face and Infinite, 2017-2019Printed and mounted in January 2020, signed by the artist.Pigment print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth Rag 305g paper90 x 60 cm
35 3/8 x 23 5/8 inEdition of 10 plus 2 artist's proof -
Sofia BorgesMulher, Mármore, Mito ou Pássaro / Woman, Marble, Myth or Bird, 2017-2020Printed and mounted in January 2020, signed by the artist.Pigment print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth Rag 305g paper108 x 72 cm
42 1/2 x 28 3/8 inEdition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof -
Sofia BorgesThe Unfathomable, 2019Pigment print on Canon Pro-6000 on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth Rag 305g paper with LUCIA PRO ink, mounted on Dibond 3mm, no frame. Printed and mounted in January 2020 by Print & Frame Vienna, Austria.200 x 300 cm
78 3/4 x 118 1/8 inEdition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof -
Sofia BorgesThe Mythologicals, 2016Printed and mounted in January 2020, signed by the artist.Pigment print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth Rag 305g paper150 x 225 cm
59 1/8 x 88 5/8 inEdition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof -
Sofia BorgesThe Ancestral Ladder of Rafael / A Escada Ancestral de Rafael, 2018Printed and mounted in January 2020, signed by the artist.Pigment print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth Rag 305g paper200 x 133 cm
78 3/4 x 52 3/8 inEdition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof