Sofia’s practice moves primarily between liquid color field paintings and graphite drawings, which emerge through distinct but interconnected states of attention. Her approach to the color field paintings relates to processes informed by meditation, phenomenology of perception, bodily sensation, and presence, while the graphite drawings emerge through dreams, active imagination, and unconscious imagery.
In her painting practice, liquid pigment stains, bleeds, and resists containment on raw canvas and organic cotton, producing surfaces that behave as porous and fluid environments. Through intuitive layering of gestures on the surface, texture, and atmospheric diffusion, the works invite sensorial and embodied forms of attention, allowing abstract forms to appear and recede through shifting states of perception.
The drawings similarly operate through ambiguity and transformation. Drawing becomes a space where images from dreams, active imagination, and unconscious processes surface through receptive and intuitive forms of attention. Ambiguous figures, bodily fragments, and symbolic forms appear within diffused and unstable atmospheres, often shifting between psychological space and bodily experience.
Sofia’s practice is grounded in an ongoing investigation into permeability — materially, psychologically, and perceptually. She is interested in states in which conscious control loosens enough for images, sensations, and forms to emerge from somewhere not fully accessible to rational or linear forms of thought. Dreams, meditation, bodily sensation, and receptive states of attention function as recurring tools of inquiry within the work.
For Sofía, image-making is a process of encounter. Material behavior, unconscious imagery, atmospheric ambiguity, and psychic tension actively participate in the development of the work, allowing uncertainty, unpredictability, transformation, and presence to remain active within the image.
Questions about emergence, openness, altered perception, and the dissolution of certainty are central to her inquiry, asking how an image, a body, or a surface might remain present and receptive enough for something unknown to pass through it. Rooted in psychological, phenomenological, bodily and perceptual investigation, Sofía’s relationship to art is deeply poetic and experiential. Her work approaches art as a way of encountering forms of presence, sensation, and transformation that resist complete resolution.
Education
2017 High School Diploma
Instituto de Educación Activa I.D.E.A, Valencia, Venezuela
2019-2022 Graphic Design Bachelor
L’institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués, Paris, France
2022-2025 Bachelor of Fine Arts
Paris College of Art, Paris, France
Group Exhibitions
2025 Eidos, Senior Degree Show, Bastille Design Center
Paris, France
Unfazed: Glitter, Harposphere, Curated by Léa Onno Echetna
Paris, France
2024 Brief Shalimar
Paris, France
Unfazed I, Curated by Léa Onno Echetna
Paris, France