Sophie Spedding

Sophie Spedding (London, 1995) graduated in 2019 with their BA from The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL in London where they currently live and work. Their practice draws from the use of intersections of systems to structure bodies of work. Fundamental structures are reliant on the duality of using contextual systems, and intrusively sincere visualisations. They are interested in this intersection that encompasses dismissal and abjection through the amount of care imposed on the border of subject and self. They believe that there is space for reconciliation, of balancing low-fi references, whilst synthesising the tenderness of others’ pararealties. They are occupied with the idea of the defining of desires through abjection and what it is to be absorbed into someone’s mirrored self. Using posthuman figuration as a form of genderless carnivorous attachment to an idea of human memory, they invest in the viewer as a potential body and self. Their work has been featured in a number of exhibitions, among these: Hétérotopie, Bubble’n’Squeak (Brussels, 2020); Transatlantico, Mana Contemporary (NJ, 2020) and Palazzo Monti Residency (Brescia, 2019).