Artist Statement/ Biography

Sophie Dupont (Denmark 1975) is a visual artist working in different medias, performance, photography, sculpture and painting. She lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Dupont received an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and has studied Contemporary Dance at London Contemporary Dance School (The Place).
Sophie Dupont works with performance, painting, sculpture and photography, but disregarding media the starting point for her works is often an existential and poetic reflection on the basic human conditions and on the basic elements and mechanisms of both body and mind.
Dupont’s poetic and existential focus also often reflects in her works’ formal minimalism and choice of materials, which are often in dialogue with the body and mind – either symbolically or directly. Recurring themes in Sophie Dupont are simple rituals and repetitions. Through those she examines the contradictions and connections between object and subject; body and psyche and her past performances have thus been quiet poetic studies of respiration, body weight, balance, movement and sleep.
Influenced by 20th-century performance art and the avant-garde, as well as ‘primitive’ art, psychology and Eastern philosophy, these elements are used to explore reflections on the ways we are present in the world.

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Sophie Dupont (b. 1975) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2007, and previously studied at London Contemporary Dance School. Dupont has performed and exhibited at a large number of museums, festivals and galleries in Denmark and abroad, including the National Gallery of Denmark, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art; Horsens Art Museum, New Studio, London, Petra Gut Contemporary, Zürich, Forma y Sustancia, Guatemala City, Art Claims Impulse, Berlin, and EXTRA: Festival International De Performance, Hilario Galguera, Mexico City. Latest she has been a resident at Cité des Artes Paris and Casa Wabi, Mexico.