Sop (they/them/theirs) is a torn and crooked leaf, a root embedded in the dirt, a shoot reaching to the sky. An artist working in crip time with sound, performance, writing, film and sculpture.
They work primarily with nature which they use as a portal to interrogate their own experience of existing in a chronically ill body, and how other disabled and chronically ill bodies interact with and relate to nature and the natural world. Their work tends to centre modes of sociality, beginning with personal narrative, then expanding through dialogue with their crip community to include other bodies’ concerns. They have an interest in esoterics and mediumship, and health practices including somatics and meditation.
They have shown work at Wellcome Collection, British Museum, ICA, Cubitt, LUX, and Whitechapel Gallery; and their work is included in publications ‘Documents of Contemporary Art: Walking’. Ed. Tom Jeffreys; ‘Botanical Architecture: Plants, Buildings and Us’, by Paul Dobraszczyk and ‘Bodies of Sound’. Eds. Irene Revell and Sarah Shin.
They are anti-clock, pro-informal-networks-of-care; anti-normality/standardisation; pro-interpersonal-dedication.
They live and work in South East London.
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