Photo: Samuel Graves
Ida Sophia (b. 1989)
Working primarily in performance art with a hybrid media and sculpture practice, Ida Sophia’s work is characterised by encounters that cause a physiological opening and induce emotional parallels. Addressing personal yet pervasive themes such as regret, transformation, vain hope, forgiveness and dynamics of connection, Ida Sophia makes work conceived with symbolic materiality, site specificity, ritual gesture and durational time. This confrontational yet conciliatory undertaking proposes an examination into the complexities of interfamilial relationships and ultimately, constructs an opportunity to understand, accept and process pain within our faculty of reason, will and belief.
Ida has exhibited both locally and internationally, notably: Scope BLN (2024),The Port Pirie Regional Gallery (2024), The Art Gallery of South Australia (2023), Adelaide Contemporary Experimental [ACE] (2023), Seventh Gallery (2023), Performance Space Carriageworks (2022), Floating Goose Studios (2021), The Mill (2021), The Venice International Performance Art Week (2020), Æther (2019), ACU Gallery (2019). In 2023 Ida won the prestigious Ramsay Art Prize and is currently in Berlin completing a residency at Scope BLN, Berlin, directed by curator Boris Kostadinov.