Galerie EAST presents: SOPHIE KO “Some must die below, of course” Engraved into the wall of the EYES ONLY exhibition space, the title of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s poem becomes part of the installation of the same name. A “temporal geography” typical of Ko protrudes from the floor as a pointed fragment of an imaginary star. In dialogue with this is a small bronze sculpture, a simple sailboat consisting of leaves and bark. A timeless gesture to not only focus our gaze on the decay of our existence, but to resist the destructive forces of time with childlike curiosity.
After graduating from the Tbilisi and Brera Academies of Fine Arts, Sophie KO (*1981, Tiblisi) has exhibited at the Marino Marini Museum in Italy, as well as in France, Germany and Argentina. In 2016, she won the first prize of painting at the Lissone Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Alberto Zanchetta. She lives and works in Milano.