SOFÍA JACK

Spain, 1968

MARTÍNEZ & AVEZUELA

Graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, she later furthered her training with Gerhard Richter, Zush, Vito Acconci and Katherina Sieverding. Throughout various projects she addresses the complex and uncomfortable negotiation between utopia and reality. In her charcoal drawings, she recreates places that embodied modern rationality in order to investigate its reverse side, and how the human – desires, fears, affections and feelings – cracks an idea of reason and order that becomes utopia. Sometimes they are imaginary solutions – machine-houses capable of adapting to the needs of their surroundings and their inhabitants – or else they are spaces of rationalist architecture in which she develops a psychological, emotional and affective fact, as a mirror of our personal and non-transferable life story.

Her work is represented, among other institutions, in the Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, the CGAC, the Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos de Madrid, INJUVE, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa, Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Diputación A Coruña, Fundación la Caixa, Museo Patio Herreriano, Comunidad de Madrid or the Colección de Arte Contemporáneo de la UNED, as well as in numerous private collections.