Sofia Mendiondo

Statement

Her artistic practice is grounded in the two trades that makes her formative journey: psychoanalysis and sewing, which have led her to delve into concepts such as repetition, variation, measurement, series, point, and cut.

Her current research line is focused on dreams as archives and psychopathological diagnoses, as part of a project called dream x insight, which employs data processing, sewing machine as translation tool, and the creation of a website with artificial intelligence. She also investigates embodied memory in certain movements of the human body and in a specific object – unused breast prostheses – using video for recording and documentation.

GlogauAIR Project

Dream x Insights involves designing a web page with artificial intelligence where people can enter their dreams, keep a digital file, receive results, and interact with them. The goal of D x I is to give dreams a voice and possibilities to act on us, pointing out that first, it is necessary to remember them. This project also involves its translation into textiles, with the aim of making it an electronic and interactive textile.

Object memory inventory involves registering and documenting the tests conducted on a specific object – discontinued breast prostheses – during the study of its corporal memory. The intention is to continue the investigation through video documentation and by creating a scaled replica of the object.

Installation and Video

CV Summary

EDUCATION

• Hangar CIA Residency (2023)
• Proyecto ACE Residency (2023)
• Artistic workshop with Leila Tschopp (2023)
• Belgrade Studio Residency (2022)
• Material-laboratory of elements with Manuel Fernández and Agustina Triquell (2022)
• Artistic practices with Lorena Fernández (2022, 2021, 2020)
• Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Buenos Aires (2013-2017)
• Fashion design at the University of Buenos Aires (2009-2012)
• Studies in textile experimentation at Escuela MT (2013-2019)
• Art clinic with Rosa Skific (2016-2018)
• Art clinic with Andrea Moccio (2016)
• Workshops in biomaterials, screen printing, cyanotype, sublimation, relief, and drawing.

EXHIBITIONS

• Boomer, London (2022)
• 4th collective exhibition of women artists at Fusion Art (2022)
• Ache de: cycle of artists (2021)
• Highlife, Buenos Aires (2017)

OTHER ACTIVITIES

• Creating Hilando. Creator and coordinator. Project of cross-linking health between mental and artistic practices directed at adolescents. Supported by Fundación Kaleidos/ Children’s and Action and the Mental Health Department of the City of Buenos Aires. (2017-2021)
• Assistant to plastic artist and sculptor Celina Saubidet. (2012-2018)
• Art installation with Celina Saubidet for Fuerza Bruta Japan (2017-2018)
• Assistant to plastic artist Felipe Giménez (2013-2018)
• Residency in Clinical Psychology. At the Dr. Cosme Argerich General Acute Hospital. Buenos Aires, Argentina. (2018-2022)

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