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Sophia Lengle b. 1997 is a Canadian artist currently based between the Netherlands and the Canadian Prairies.
My practice culminates around ideas of makeshift (i.e. fixing and affixing things creatively with limited resources), labour as occupying space/belonging, and personal sanctuary.
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 to my family of builders and writers, and to a certain place which could be anywhere. Weaving is the making of home.
I implement the makeshift in all the minute decisions that accumulate into cloth, but I am not weaving to make cloth. I compose thread by thread, a porous composite that exist as process, tool and record.
2020 BFA Alberta University of the Arts
2024 MFA Gerrit Rietveld Academie/Sandberg Instituut
