Sophronia Cook
A Cap of Consciousness Over Your Head, 2025
Vinyl, silk, resin, charcoal, aluminum and parachute fabric
102 x 63.5 x 5 cm
40 x 25 x 2 inches
40 x 25 x 2 inches
Copyright The Artist
Photo: Dirk Tacke
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In „A Cap of Consciousness Over Your Head“ (2025) und „Barcelona Laundry Bottle“ (2025) führt Sophronia Cook ihre Untersuchung von Replikation, Materialität und formaler Verdichtung, die ihr Werk prägen, fort....
In „A Cap of Consciousness Over Your Head“ (2025) und „Barcelona Laundry Bottle“ (2025) führt Sophronia Cook ihre Untersuchung von Replikation, Materialität und formaler Verdichtung, die ihr Werk prägen, fort. Beide Assemblagen verbinden Malerei, skulpturale Elemente und druckgrafische Verfahren zu vielschichtigen Bildkörpern, in denen wiederkehrende Motive ein eigenes visuelles Vokabular ausbilden. Ausgangspunkt sind alltägliche Objekte – etwa die rosa Waschmittelflasche in „Barcelona Laundry Bottle“ – die Cook durch Abgüsse, Abreibungen und Übertragungen transformiert. Im Prozess lösen sie sich vom ursprünglichen Gegenstand und werden zu strukturellen Elementen innerhalb eines selbstreferenziellen Formensystems. In beiden Arbeiten bildet Fallschirmstoff die oberste Schicht: ein durchscheinendes, bewegliches Material, dessen Faltenwurf kunsthistorische Fragen nach Draperie und Körperlichkeit aufruft. Cook nutzt diese textile Haut als zusätzliche verhüllende, aber auch semitransparente Ebene, die den darunterliegenden Prozess sichtbar macht und die zeitliche Dimension des Layerings betont. Eine aus Aluminium gegossene Muschel – ein wiederkehrendes Motiv ihres Werks – wird in „A Cap of Consciousness Over Your Head“ zum skulpturalen Bindeglied zwischen den Werken. So entstehen dichte Bildräume, in denen Materialien, Erinnerungsfragmente und wiederholte Formen ineinandergreifen. Cooks Praxis entwickelt daraus ein offenes Gefüge, in dem jede Schicht weiterwandert, sich neu formt und Teil eines wachsenden, zirkulierenden Kosmos wird.
In “A Cap of Consciousness Over Your Head” (2025) and “Barcelona Laundry Bottle” (2025), Sophronia Cook continues her exploration of replication, materiality, and formal condensation, which characterize her work. Both assemblages combine painting, sculptural elements, and printmaking techniques to create multi-layered pictorial bodies in which recurring motifs form their own visual vocabulary. The starting point is everyday objects—such as the pink detergent bottle in "Barcelona Laundry Bottle"—which Cook transforms through casts, rubbings, and transfers. In the process, they detach themselves from the original object and become structural elements within a self-referential system of forms. In both works, parachute fabric forms the top layer: a translucent, malleable material whose drapery evokes art-historical questions of drapery and physicality. Cook uses this textile skin as an additional concealing but also semi-transparent layer that reveals the underlying process and emphasizes the temporal dimension of layering. A shell cast from aluminum—a recurring motif in her work—becomes the sculptural link between the works in "A Cap of Consciousness Over Your Head". This creates dense pictorial spaces in which materials, fragments of memory, and repeated forms intertwine. Cook's practice develops an open structure in which each layer migrates, reforms, and becomes part of a growing, circulating cosmos.
In “A Cap of Consciousness Over Your Head” (2025) and “Barcelona Laundry Bottle” (2025), Sophronia Cook continues her exploration of replication, materiality, and formal condensation, which characterize her work. Both assemblages combine painting, sculptural elements, and printmaking techniques to create multi-layered pictorial bodies in which recurring motifs form their own visual vocabulary. The starting point is everyday objects—such as the pink detergent bottle in "Barcelona Laundry Bottle"—which Cook transforms through casts, rubbings, and transfers. In the process, they detach themselves from the original object and become structural elements within a self-referential system of forms. In both works, parachute fabric forms the top layer: a translucent, malleable material whose drapery evokes art-historical questions of drapery and physicality. Cook uses this textile skin as an additional concealing but also semi-transparent layer that reveals the underlying process and emphasizes the temporal dimension of layering. A shell cast from aluminum—a recurring motif in her work—becomes the sculptural link between the works in "A Cap of Consciousness Over Your Head". This creates dense pictorial spaces in which materials, fragments of memory, and repeated forms intertwine. Cook's practice develops an open structure in which each layer migrates, reforms, and becomes part of a growing, circulating cosmos.