Sofía Peypoch
Directing
Biography
Visual artist that combines film, photography, poetry and found objects. Her practice resides at the interstice between personal memory and collective thought. Her work imagines memory as navigable space where meaning lies in witnessing the experience of the present as a continuous fabric of events in constant transformation. She is currently working on a documentary about the volition of matter to preserve memory.
Known For
A haiku about a window and a woman.
I Imagine a Text that Changes
"My name, melancholia".
there is a willow grows aslant a brook,
An experimental short film exploring the sexuality of a young woman
Kintsukuroi or where the trees are born
The body journeys into the night. The shadows produce gaps in the memory and there the losses are practised. The body observes itself as it portrays and represents itself. The work is an essay on the act of seeing. It is also an ode to digital noise, where the presence of the pixel embellishes the prosaic. ’then turn tears to fires' is a farewell letter, which preserves the memory of the author through video diaries.
then turn tears to fires
a leaf suspended in time.
verdes ojos
sofía returns to the site of her kidnapping. Amid the darkness and silence, her hands search underground for traces of a buried memory. Others replicate this chimerical gesture. The earth is an immutable witness that refuses to forget.
earth altars
An essay on the brutality of beauty and innocence in a hostile world.
at her heels a stone
The gaze is witness to the spaces that are built in the contours of the shadow. From the night specters emerge that transfigure memory. A remembrance of closed eyelids.