Sophia Mainka
Sophia Mainka combines sculpture, drawing, and video into a multilayered practice that she presents through immersive installations. These are inhabited by hybrid figures, ambivalent objects, and materials that oscillate between the artificial and the organic. Her works probe the often-permeable boundaries between the private and the public, the human and the non-human, function and fiction.
Inspired by post-anthropocentric and feminist thought, Mainka develops speculative narratives in which power relations are transformed, rearranged, or dissolved. Things become autonomous protagonists, carriers of stories and memories – inviting us to think differently: with agility, attentiveness, and in forms of coexistence that are yet to be invented.