Sophie Seita is a London-based artist and researcher whose work swims in the muddy waters of language and is informed by deep listening, critical opacity, queer abstraction, and a playfulness that’s both rigorous and pleasurable. Often working collaboratively, she’s expanding and deepening her ongoing decolonial and queer project with the musician and conductor Naomi Woo, to give voice to untold queer archives, alongside other international artists, academics, activists, gardeners, designers, and writers, as part of The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions. Most recently, this took the form of a fictional gardening talk show called bingenTV; a solo exhibition at Mimosa House; a series of 'scores for care', and a multi-layered encounter in the wetlands of Xochimilco, Mexico City, in collaboration with the organisation Ruta del Castor, the artist Carolina Caycedo, and numerous international artists, activists, farmers, and researchers. Sophie teaches studio practice on the BA Fine Art & History of Art and is Director of Critical Studies on the BA Fine Art Extension at Goldsmiths. In 2023, she was artist in residence at Brown University, and currently holds the 2023-2024 Werner Düttmann Fellowship at Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Her latest book is Lessons of Decal, a collection of experimental essays, out now with the 87 Press.
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www.gold.ac.uk/art/staff/seita-sophie