sophie saporosi

Sophie Saporosi
is a belgo-italian artist based in Brussels.
She travels the world looking for bridges,
building images and movement
from the reality she meets out there.
Rwanda post-genocide,
Burkina Faso and its street’s kids,
asylum and Amazonia in French Guyana,
Belgium’s Giants,
clan’s rules in south Italy, gend/trification from Molenbeek-Saint-Jean to Istanbul,
gender and religion in Dakar,
her theorical background - from phenomenology to poetry via psychiatry - opend her photography practice.
Alliance of gesture and images,
her works puts her body in the field,
crossing borders of being and doing.
She’s questionning our contemporary world,
mapping a Being stuck in Human Condition,
surrounded by a thick and concrete reality.
In public spaces or museum, her installations and performances are creating brand new semantic directions ; symbol stack and oxymoron displaying
fog, layers, blury shadows, smog and ghosts,
inviting us to think again.
«Thinking accompanies life and is itself the de-materialized quintessence of being alive; and since life is a process; its quintessence can only lie in the actual thinking process and not in any solid results or specific thoughts.
A life without thinking is quite possible; it then fails to develop its own essence
—it is not merely meaningless; it is not fully alive.
Unthinking men are like sleepwalkers.»
Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind (1978)