An Archaeology of the Future - The Universe on the Other Side of the Skin

This essay does not aim to present a chronological survey or to provide detailed descriptions of individual artworks but to indicate ways for the viewer to engage with and ponder on Sophie Bouvier Ausländer’s strategies for ‘worldmaking’ as presented in her work. Her ‘worlds’ are generated by fundamental themes which coalesce. My purpose is to unpack some of them.

Circumstantial and serendipitous moments, for instance when a chance meeting or an encounter with a book, painting or other point of reference brings to light numerous connections between people, places and ways of thinking, are a form of journeying, though such instants on the voyage collide, intersect and then dissipate, are overlooked or forgotten.

In Sophie Bouvier Ausländer’s monograph “Words, Works, Worlds”.