Sophia Lengle b. 1997 is a visual artist currently based between the Netherlands and the Canadian Prairies.

My practice brings together narratives and processes based in the makeshift (i.e. fixing and affixing things creatively with limited resources), labour as occupying space/belonging, and personal sanctuary. This is consistent whether my compositions are created through weaving, painting or writing. Often, I work between these disciplines, for example: I bring the idea of tension and accumulation to the table when I approach compositions in painting. Or when I work with text, I am accompanied by the rhythms of weaving and the subconscious imagery I explore in painting.

I experience weaving as a process that allows vast mental space for dreaming while grounding me in my body. It is a self-imposed labour that grants me a sense of belonging within community, including the lineage of weavers that came before. I implement the makeshift in all the minute decisions that accumulate into cloth, but I am not weaving only to make cloth. I compose thread by thread and line by line, and this creates a surface that exist as process, tool and record.


My studio is currently in Edmonton, AB 

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