Sofia Ortega

About

Sofía Ortega is a Venezuelan multidisciplinary artist based in Paris. Working across painting, drawing, photography, self-portraiture, installation, video, and experiments with liquids.

Statement

Sofía is deeply curious about the relationship between inner experience and the material world. Her practice explores the subtle relationships between the psyche, the body, silence, and the natural environment. In her process-based paintings, Sofía pours liquid pigment onto raw canvas, organic cotton, and bedsheets. As color spreads and permeates the surface of the fabric, gesture and the behavior of matter collaborate. The resulting forms suggest cellular structures, geological formations, and fluid landscapes without settling into fixed images. Through absorption and staining, she seeks a tactile sense of presence, as though the surface held traces of something alive. Her photographs of liquid experiments continue an investigation on material behavior. Observing fluids transform and interact, she approaches matter as an active participant in the process. Each photograph captures a snapshot of an ongoing transition. Her graphite drawings follow a seemingly different but related path. Sofía works with images from dreams, active imagination exercises, and intuitive associations, gradually shaping them through tonal accumulation and soft mark-making. The drawings result in misty, indeterminate psychic spaces where organic forms, insects, and the body combine into dream-like, ambiguous compositions. In her practice, drawing is a way of giving form to images that first manifest within the body as an elusive memory, sensation, or gut feeling. Sofía approaches artistic research as a practice akin to gardening: one of careful attention and collaboration with the agency of materials and images. Whether working with the unruly behavior of liquids or materializing compositions that emerge without conscious design, she responds to what unfolds, participating without fully controlling. For Sofía, making art is a deliberate practice of presence, a way of remaining open to experiences that arise in the body and exploring what is difficult to define.

Commissions

I accept commissions across all my available bodies of work.

Starting from $1,346