In August 2016, Sophie Jung will be presenting her work; a video called “The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful” at the new BlackBox initiative.
The BlackBox is a new projection space for film and video artists installed on the ground floor of the Casino Luxembourg contemporary art forum in Luxembourg city centre, and is dedicated to contemporary video. It regularly offers a new programme with films produced by an artist or films by different artists on a specific theme.
Sophie Jung was born in 1982 in Luxembourg and now lives and works in Basel and London. Her work revolves around a fascination for unstable semiotics. With textual and textured sculptures, she addresses the serious and often absurd desperation with which concepts are packed in rickety words, objects or facial expressions.
Sophie is somewhere between an artist and an author, because of the moving images based on the text “The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful” that prolong the evanescent sketches which revolve around pauses, stutters and breaths. Then there is the text-based motion picture that deploys and folds in the neurotic desire of a linguistic scenery.
Her recent projects and exhibitions are “New Waiting” in the gallery Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn; “Äppärät” in Ballroom Marfa, San Antonio (Texas); “Eh, co? Nah cis. Us!” at Kunsthalle Basel in Basel; “Uncanny Valley” at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge; “X-Examination” at ICA, London; “London For Fiktion: New Writing Group, Down To Write You This Poem” at Oakville Galleries in Canada and “Tarantallegra” at the Hester gallery in New York.
The BlackThursday video exhibitions at the BlackBox allows for artists to make a personal programming of their exhibition for an evening. Sophie Jung will have a show of hers on Thursday 4 August at 19:00.
