Sophie Whettnall

The Brussels-based artist Sophie Whettnall embraces a multidisciplinary practice – drawing, painting, sculpture, video and performance – in which the relationship with landscape and light frequently features. She seeks to explore the relationship between human beings and the world around them. Through this cosmic lens, a more intimate connection to the artist herself emerges. In 2019, for the exhibition *The Ice Floe, the Forest and the Stars*, Sophie Whettnall chose to bring together a selection of paintings by Etel Adnan, which she presented alongside her own installations. Several of these canvases evoke Mount Tamalpais in California, a place that had become dear, even indispensable, to the Lebanese artist and poet. Inner landscapes, a love of light and a poetic gaze unite the two women. However, whilst Etel Adnan expresses this sensibility through blocks of pure colour, Sophie Whettnall, on the other hand, works entirely with transparency. The play of shadows fascinates the artist, as evidenced by her Mental Mountains#1, created using spray paint. 

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