Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020

Silence Awareness Existence program / JANUARY 2020
Sophie Molins
UK
www.weddingdressinspace.com
About
Recent projects include:
- Sending a divorced women’s wedding dress into space
where it dances to a score by Michael Nyman.
- Inland Island - A feminine sensory ethnography of the
mountains at the St Bernard’s pass.
Current projects:
- Lost Sheep. A sensory ethnography through addiction,
articulating the importance of love attachment and
community. This is deeply connected to my work in a recovery
house where I volunteer running a Spiritual Guidance group.
- A sugar corset exploring consumption; sugar; colonial trade
and women’s waste sizes.
- Weekly documentation at a local Auction house of loved
collections by recently deceased.
INTERESTS include
Systems – education; prisons; climate change Nature,
seasons, climate, walking, swimming.
Reading poetry and psychoanalysis, iyengar yoga and
mediation.
I have an MA from UCL Anthropology dept. in Ethnographic
and documentary film and am particularly interested in the
anthropology of healing and ritual. I also have an MA in Fine
art from Central St Martins.
I have won funding from the Arts Council and The New York
Times Eddie Adams Award.
I have worked as a senior lecturer in Photography at the
University of Roehampton and as The Arts coordinator for a
climate change charity Artists Project Earth.
Switch On The Dark
Going through old work I became interested in playing with an
image of a mesmerised woman by Dora Maar. I told the group
a story of how the Victorian search for spirits unwittingly led
to the discovery of the great communications systems of our
time. The telegraph; Morse; The Cold Cathode Ray (TV) and
The Telephone were all results of experiments to contact the
spirits of the departed.
I took this work outside on my walks through the woods
and to the lake. I love Northern European Pagan rituals and
folklore so I photographed potential wood folk similar to The
Groke or the Krampus.
I made a book out of materials I found in the supermarket,
the kitchen, the store cupboards and old Finnish magazines
from the 2nd hand shops and began to knit and sew and
made glass Sugar.