Sophie Jung’s practice addresses representation and its pitfalls, both culturally as a system of disguised and shifting signs and personally as a way to track and record life.
She regularly negotiates between form and affect, pragmatism and romance, between scrutinizing accuracy and magical awe. Her work is strict, slick and abstract as well as emotionally involved, performative and overly literal; the intersection of form, structure and rhythm with the messy, whimsical, perturbed and oddly sentimental is the underlying tone in her work, be it video, performance, sculpture, text or photography.
She studied photography and media arts at the Folkwang School in Essen, the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste; she graduated in 2011 from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and is currently doing an MA in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Sophie Jung was born in 1982 in Luxembourg and lives and works in Basel and London.
Artworks
Me In My Mother's Engagement Dress In My Father's Country House At My Grandfather's Piano, Wearing My Grandmother's Pearls And My Godfather's Ring, Two Days Before Refusing My First Proposal Of Marriage
By SophieJung
210 x 150 cm
Created in 2010
Laserchrome, Diasec, framed.
Acquired in September 2014
By SophieJung
Arendt House - 1st floor
2016
By SophieJung
EASYJET
60 x 40 cm
Created in 2012
10 works
Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth, framed.
Acquired in September 2014
By SophieJung
EASYJET
60 x 40 cm
Created in 2012
10 works
Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth, framed.
Acquired in September 2014
By SophieJung
EASYJET
60 x 40 cm
Created in 2012
10 works
Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth, framed.
Acquired in September 2014
By SophieJung
EASYJET
60 x 40 cm
Created in 2012
10 works
Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth, framed.
Acquired in September 2014
By SophieJung
EASYJET
60 x 40 cm
Created in 2012
10 works
Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth, framed.
Acquired in September 2014
By SophieJung
The world is blue like an orange
Arendt & Medernach / Rue Erasme
March 2014
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