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.
In Sporta iela 2 k-1, 15.7.-12.9.2021, ZDZ (2022), Thun explores the photographic archive of the late Latvian artist Zenta Dzividzinska, referred to as ZDZ. The boxes on the bottom left hold some of the thousands of negatives of Zenta Dzividzinska, that Thun was exposing throughout an exhibition in 2021 at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, supported by Phileas, during which this image was shot.
Phileas has donated the work Sporta iela 2 k-1, 15.7.-12.9.2021, ZDZ 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
Sporta iela 2 k-1, 15.7.-12.9.2021, ZDZ, 2022
photogram on baryta paper in artist's frame
40 x 30 x 3 cm
