from: Art au Centre, Liege (BE)
to: Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (DE)
The series “Sand Landscapes” is based on 17th-century paintings borrowed from the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Sophie Langohr disrupts these idyllic views by drawing inspiration from the folk art of sand bottles, goodies for tourists that captures the memory of exotic landscapes. Psychelics jolts, shifts and blurring come to disturb the presumed immutability of the classical landscape. Our landscape, today, is marked by a grim forewarning. Disasters and inevitable transformations : a reality destined to slip through our fingers and escape us. But the evocation of sand artworks also irresistibly calls to mind Borges and his Book of Sand, a promise of endless stories, a work containing all works, annihilating time.
Sophie Langohr is a visual artist living and working in Liège, Belgium. Her work is based on the study and interpretation of artpieces from the past. She makes her own pictures and objects filled with history and express herself through their own modes of construction and self-production. Through a variety of re-manufacturing processes, she revisits, redirects and subverts them to make them speak in new ways, in new contexts.