Sofie Ramos: Deep End

Sofie Ramos animates the inanimate and creates alternate existences for abandoned objects. She paints found household items, such as couches and lamps, and re-presents them as characters in her wildly imaginative installations and stop-motion animations. Ramos transforms each object by “cleaning” them in house paint in order to cover up memories and histories to render the object anew. In her installations, she piles these painted objects into architectural spaces, allowing them to sprawl, stretch, and stack on top of one another in truly immersive, one-of-a-kind experiences.

Each of Ramos’s jam-packed assemblages of objects is a hoarder’s paradise. Her works find their ways into viewers’ hearts as they consider personal associations with objects from the home presented in the ordered chaos of her installations. As she recreates and represents familiar objects, they become simultaneously strange and more likeable and approachable than the original objects. Disguised as funhouses of color and cheer, Ramos’ work explores the unstable balance between comfort and anxiety and between safety and confinement in intimate spaces.

Virtual Artist Talk
Thursday, August 25 – 6-7 pm