Exhibition "Morning rituals and dissociation tools"

MORNING RITUALS & DISSOCIATION TOOLS Sofia Alazraki, Buenos Aires 1991.

Sofia Alazraki’s work emerges from careful observation and collection of objects around her—things not everyone notices, things that have already been used, lost, dead, broken, or empty. In this series of still lifes, she explores the complex relationship we have with ourselves, with our self-image, and with our bonds.

Sofia creates scenes full of symbolism, where each object seems to transform into a tool that generates introspection, as if by observing them, we are looking into a mirror. In these visual landscapes, the broken and the beautiful coexist, while the harsh and the tender intertwine, opening a space to explore the relationship between desire, disillusionment and laughter.

The objects Sofia selects come to life, gaining temporality and action, like characters embodying the destruction and reconstruction of an idea—something that can no longer be the same as before, but still tries.…