Pain / Roses, 2021
What do we see when we look at an image or an object? If we accept the postulate that "you can only see what you are looking at. [That] To look is to choose", how can we free our gazes from a specific socio-cultural or political framework? Sophie Langohr’s visual work tries to answer this question from the perspective of our representation systems. Through her different series of photographs and sculptures, she confronts images or objects from art history or local cultural heritage, using contemporary references that reactivate or deactivate the codes we use to “look” today.
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Born in Liège, Belgium in 1974, Sophie Langohr has a degree in Romance philology from the Université de Liège and one in painting from the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the same city.
Inspired by gender studies, her work examines and reinterprets artistic heritage. She appropriates images and objects charged with history, and expresses herself through their own modes of construction and ways they produce meaning. Through different processes of re-fabrication, the artist revisits, hijacks, and subverts them so they can speak differently in brand-new contexts.
Sophie Langohr is represented by Galerie Nadja Vilenne in Liège and regularly exhibited in Belgium, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. In 2021, she participated in the 5th edition of Art Au Centre in Liège with her installation Pain / Roses.
©Isabelle Meister (portrait)
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