Ida Sophia: Patience and Penitentia
Ida Sophia’s installation and durational performance Patience and Penitentia explores the painful and damaging experience of relational withdrawal—the silent treatment—in a work that enacts the power dynamics, strategies of control and form of punishment at its core. Over the span of the exhibition, a participatory ritual performed by the artist and a select number of performers will see Sophia incorporate elements of sound, language, movement and gesture to publicly transfigure private suffering through collective release.
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Please note: Outside of the scheduled performance, the audience can still experience the installation element of this exhibition.
Main Image: Ida Sophia, Patience and Penitentia, Ida Sophia & Vilma Leino. Courtesy of the artist. Gallery Images: Ida Sophia, Patience and Penitentia, Sia Duff.
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