How to Reach the Space In-Between
The London and Basel-based artist Sophie Jung works across performance, sculpture and text. Recent projects include a series of live performances during Frieze London 2019, the solo exhibition ‘The Bigger Sleep’ at Kunstmuseum Basel and the installative performance The Day Teaches The Day at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. Her latest solo exhibition ‘They Might Stay the Night’ at Casino Luxembourg, which consists of a “coalition” of sculptures, had to close temporarily due to the Corona pandemic. When Sophie and our author Louisa Behr talked on the phone about the interview, they quickly came to the conclusion that they didn’t want to discuss primarily how her projects and artistic practice are affected by the pandemic. We’re still in the middle of it, so we can’t put the effects into words yet. Rather, the crisis gave us an impulse to talk generally about temporality, materiality and presence within performative and sculptural work and to examine their virtual potentials.