Sophie Thun
Donation to Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Sophie Thun (born 1985) works with analogue photography, using the medium to make large-scale exposures, contact prints, and photograms that challenge photography’s established norms and conventions. Self-depiction recurs in her practice; she performs for the camera and enlarger alone, using the apparatuses as an extension of her body. Thun is the model, producer, and author of her works. She is interested in the processes and conditions of production and exhibition as well as the conditions of (female) representation.
Her work what stays with me (Westbahnstrasse 27-29) (2022) presents remnants and test strips of photographs that show reoccurring visual elements of Thun’s oeuvre, layered in overlapping stacks in her studio.
Phileas has donated the work what stays with me (Westbahnstrasse 27-29) to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, one of the largest and most important collections of photography in the world. This donation represents Phileas' first international contribution and marks the debut of Thun's work in a public collection in the UK.
DONATED ARTWORK
what stays with me (Westbahnstrasse 27-29) , 2022
silver gelatine print on baryta paper in artist's frame
42 x 33,5 x 3 cm
