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Sofía Peypoch

Born April 15, 1994 · Mexico City, Mexico (age 32)

Visual artist that combines film, photography, poetry and found objects. Her practice resides at the interstice between personal memory and collective thought. Her work imagines memory as navigable space where meaning lies in witnessing the experience of the present as a continuous fabric of events in constant transformation. She is currently working on a documentary about the volition of matter t…

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verdes ojos

verdes ojos · 2022

a leaf suspended in time.

Kintsukuroi or where the trees are born

Kintsukuroi or where the trees are born · 2019

Kintsukuroi or where the trees are born

An experimental short film exploring the sexuality of a young woman

earth altars

earth altars · 2023

MovieDocumentary

sofía returns to the site of her kidnapping. Amid the darkness and silence, her hands search underground for traces of a buried memory. Others replicate this chimerical gesture. The earth is an immutable witness that refuses to forget.

then turn tears to fires

then turn tears to fires · 2023

then turn tears to fires

The body journeys into the night. The shadows produce gaps in the memory and there the losses are practised. The body observes itself as it portrays and represents itself. The work is an essay on the act of seeing. It is also an ode to digital noise, where the presence of the pixel embellishes the prosaic. ’then turn tears to fires' is a farewell letter, which preserves the memory of the author through video diaries.

there with fantastic garlands did she come

there with fantastic garlands did she come · 2022

there with fantastic garlands did she come

The gaze is witness to the spaces that are built in the contours of the shadow. From the night specters emerge that transfigure memory. A remembrance of closed eyelids.

at her heels a stone

at her heels a stone · 2020

at her heels a stone

An essay on the brutality of beauty and innocence in a hostile world.

there is a willow grows aslant a brook,

there is a willow grows aslant a brook, · 2020

there is a willow grows aslant a brook,

"My name, melancholia".

I Imagine a Text that Changes

I Imagine a Text that Changes · 2020

I Imagine a Text that Changes

A haiku about a window and a woman.

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verdes ojos

verdes ojos · 2022

a leaf suspended in time.

Director

Kintsukuroi or where the trees are born

Kintsukuroi or where the trees are born · 2019

Kintsukuroi or where the trees are born

An experimental short film exploring the sexuality of a young woman

Director

earth altars

earth altars · 2023

MovieDocumentary

sofía returns to the site of her kidnapping. Amid the darkness and silence, her hands search underground for traces of a buried memory. Others replicate this chimerical gesture. The earth is an immutable witness that refuses to forget.

Director of Photography

then turn tears to fires

then turn tears to fires · 2023

then turn tears to fires

The body journeys into the night. The shadows produce gaps in the memory and there the losses are practised. The body observes itself as it portrays and represents itself. The work is an essay on the act of seeing. It is also an ode to digital noise, where the presence of the pixel embellishes the prosaic. ’then turn tears to fires' is a farewell letter, which preserves the memory of the author through video diaries.

Director

there with fantastic garlands did she come

there with fantastic garlands did she come · 2022

there with fantastic garlands did she come

The gaze is witness to the spaces that are built in the contours of the shadow. From the night specters emerge that transfigure memory. A remembrance of closed eyelids.

Director

at her heels a stone

at her heels a stone · 2020

at her heels a stone

An essay on the brutality of beauty and innocence in a hostile world.

Director

there is a willow grows aslant a brook,

there is a willow grows aslant a brook, · 2020

there is a willow grows aslant a brook,

"My name, melancholia".

Director of Photography

I Imagine a Text that Changes

I Imagine a Text that Changes · 2020

I Imagine a Text that Changes

A haiku about a window and a woman.

Director