SOPHIE VARIN
Born in 1993
Lives & works in Brussels

Sophie Varin’s paintings exist in a push and pull relationship between distance and proximity, reaching out and slipping
away, remembering and forgetting, seeing and hiding - all simultaneously creating a state she tries to induce in the spectator and imbue into the characters in her paintings. In their ambiguity we read familiar moments and emotions, they evoke half- remembered memories; how summer felt when you were seventeen, the name of the first boy who held your hand, or a glimpse of a liaison seen through the window of an apartment as you pass on the train. They are paintings that we feel at the edge of our consciousness, they are stories we’ve read and songs we’ve heard.
The type of perception that we have grown accustomed to in the outside world – a form of direct, rapid looking, geared
toward the extraction of meaning – shall be of little use as we investigate her scenes. A dream, affronted too directly by the faculties of recollection upon waking, evaporates instantaneously. The mind is thus required to act less like a fishing rod and more like a wide net as it attempts to sift out the tangible senses and images of a dubious reality.

SOPHIE VARIN
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3 February - 9 March 2024
MOU PROJECTS - Hong-Kong

"Des Corps Libres : Une jeune scène française", Reiffers Art Initiatives, Studio des Acacias, 2022, Paris

LISTE Art Fair, Galerie Sultana, 2022, Basel, CH

"Ni bien ni mal", Galerie Sultana, Paris, Sept-Oct 2021

"Halfway There", 12.26 West, Los Angeles, 2021

2020 - The Mumble The Attractor

"Adventurer", Fortnight Institute, New York, 2020

"I am so multiple in nights", SB 34 the Pool, Brussels, 2019