Sophie Whettnall
Biography
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Born in 1973 in Brussels (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels (Belgium).
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Sophie Whettnall is a multidisciplinary artist using video, performance, drawing and painting. Her works oscillate between elegance, sensuality and energy.
Since the nineties, the work of Sophie Whettnall offers a reflection on the forces that define our relationship to the world around us, by materializing and documenting them. Sophie Whettnall focuses on light and analyses its presence and zones of absence and passage. The aesthetic pieces of the artist prove simultaneously sensitive and powerful, resting on a dialectic tension and attempt to instigate a relation between contradicting concepts and perceptions: between softness and sensuousness, yin and yang, women and men.
Her work also contributes to a form of autobiographical project.
Sophie Whettnall won the Young Belgian Painting prize in 1999. Sophie Whettnall's work has been exhibited at the 52th Venise Biennale (Italy), Tank Shanghai, Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Salt Lake City), MAC'S, Site du Grand Hornu (Hornu), DOT. Project (London), Leal Rios Foundation (Barcelona), Centrale for Contemporary Art (Brussels), BOZAR (Brussels), Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhães (Recife), CGAC (Santiago de Compostella), Fundacio Juan Miro, Espai 13 (Barcelona), COAC (Barcelona), Vera Cortes Art Agency (Lisbon), Krinzinger Projekte (Vienna), L'orangerie - espace d'art contemporain (Bastogne), Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains (Tourcoing).
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Publications
Sophie Whettnall (at) Work
Publisher: Mercatorfonds
ISBN 978-94-6230-007-1
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![[CENTRALE for contemporary art] Olga de Soto & Sophie Whettnall](/cspdocs/videos/vignettes/sw1.png "[CENTRALE for contemporary art] Olga de Soto & Sophie Whettnall")
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