Sophie Utikal
In Transitions

“Sophie Utikal leaves it open to the viewer whether the descriptions and symbols are assigned or interpreted as universally valid carriers. She does not prescribe which cultural imprint and which knowledge is used to perceive her works. She simply opens up worlds with which the viewer of the works can then become mentally and emotionally pregnant. An invitation to experience and explore physical knowledge. Pregnancy as a transcendent moment between different realities of life and cultural imprints. The experience that the artist offers us is not determined by the capital and material experiences of our narrow cultural framework, but goes beyond it. It is an invitation to a fundamental understanding: every being, we, in the state of pregnancy, are closest to a collective and comprehensive emphatic being. Our most primal being. The moment of emergence.”