Sofia Durrieu’s work investigates where, among the objects, discourses and “standard” constructions of contemporary behaviour and domestic life, the possibility of a break can appear, with the intention of pushing perception beyond its conditioning for efficiency.

Her practice is mainly based in sculpture and performance, understanding them as a continuity: they are both situations, where the body-in-situation is a field of manifestation of indoctrination mechanisms and -in turn- a source of their possible disarticulation.

The works deal with functionality, limitations, mechanisms and structures -materials, discourses, systems of perception, habits- that are so assimilated into our perception and behaviour that they become invisible, a refuge for our absence.
In order to reconsider them -and with it, what they bring along-, these structures will be taken away from the context that justify them, compromising their meaning. Certain funcional attributes will be used for uncertain, less-definable purposes, where binary logic of opposites will not stand.

Sometimes, the situations she proposes will ask for an attentive, committed participation from the spectator. They will often need contact to be lit, inviting the knowledge of the body, intuition and/or emotions to come to the foreground. As these are involved, operative language and its mechanics are somehow disabled and automatic judgment, displaced, revealing that the univocity of meaning and learned order are apocryphal. In some degree, it’s an engagement that asks for a surrender: with it appears the opportunity to experience shape and structure beyond its fixed conception, thus opening its dynamic, contradictory, versatile, mutant, poetic nature.