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SYMPOIESIS - Magical Encounters
Navn
Sophia Moe Morbitzer Christoffersen
Uddannelsesgrad
Professionsbachelor
Fagfelt
Design
Institut
Bygningskunst og Design
Program
Crafts in Glass and Ceramics
År
2024
In the tangible & performative landscape of "SYMPOIESIS - Magical Encounters", magic is explored as a co-creating & collaborative entity, encouraged by the imaginary relationships we make with our surroundings & the embodied beings within.
Magic can render a feeling of connectedness & comfort – whether it’s through the company of mythical beings, whom you imagine living inside a fallen trunk, or in the collaboration with a tree’s crown, as its leaves momentarily break the sunbeam to provide you shelter, shadow & sunlight.
Inspired by an ecological understanding of magic & witchcraft, the ceramic landscape unfolds a shared environment, where magic is facilitated as a universal dialogue. The environment invites curiosity & wonder to become part of our perception of matter, leading to a sense of belonging through magic.
“Do you not see the very shrubs, the sparrows, the ants, the spiders and the bees, all busied and in their several stations, cooperating to adorn the system of the universe. The world is complicated and therefore magical.”
BBC Sounds: Witch (2023)
Process photos by IDoArt 2024
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ARTIST STATEMENT
Sophia Moe Morbitzer (b. 1997) is a Danish ceramist & artist with a bachelor’s degree in Art History, whose work is rooted in an ongoing investigation and understanding of materiality.
Determined by the capabilities and possibilities of the material, the sculptural process becomes intuitive and projects a sensory relation between hand and clay, shown through the careful method of pinching, coiling and carving. This contributes to a visual tangibility in her sculptures, presented through qualities of surface, scale and fragility.
Sophia is curious about how traditions, ideologies and cultural stories have been expressed visually. She embodies historical aesthetics in ceramics by letting them engage in a playful and personal dialog with her selected material. From this personal dialogue, a body of work emerge as a manifestation of imaginary and curious thinking, embracing the arbitrary and mysterious presences of clay as integrated values of the final outcome.
The visual expressions of vibrancy, magic and peculiarity become narrators of certain stories throughout the formation of her work - paraphrasing a transformation of matter.
Sophia thus aims to revive an inner curiosity and imagination in people by providing a sensuous experience of material and form through the value of recognisability and tangibility in her ceramic art pieces
“Staying with the trouble requires making oddkin; that is, we require each other in unexpected collaborations and combinations, in hot compost piles.”
Staying with the Trouble (2016)
Process photos
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“There is connection in the alien, in remaining open to experience across unknowable differences”
Witchbody (2019)
Det Kongelige Akademi understøtter FN’s verdensmål
Siden 2017 har Det Kongelige Akademi arbejdet med FN’s verdensmål. Det afspejler sig i forskning, undervisning og afgangsprojekter. Dette projekt har forholdt sig til følgende FN-mål
