Sofía Alrich Veytia

MA Fine Art SHOW Summer 2023

The MA Fine Art Summer Show 2023 took place in July 2023 and showcased MA Fine Art Students throughout Camberwell College of Arts. In this exhibition I showed two pieces, a video installation titled “Correspondence” and a triptych of etchings titled “Everything Moves; Everything Vibrates”, showing both the black and white and the colored version of this piece. 

“Everything Moves; Everything Vibrates” was hung using thin pins, this decision was made for the artwork not to be visually obstructed by other types of hanging methods, and for the visual field to be clean. The two triptychs were hung side by side to create a dialogue between them, in which each color alluded to different realms within our tangible and intangible reality. “Correspondence” was displayed in a dark room, two video channels were projected onto the far-end walls, and spectators had a space to contemplate in the middle of the room so that they could be immersed by the sound and light that surrounded them.

Convergence, 2023 

Convergence 2023, was an exhibition of work by female artists across the Camberwell MA Fine Art pathways. This exhibition celebrated collaboration and a sense of unity among the artists. It took place in the A/B gallery at Camberwell College of Arts from the 19th to the 21st of October. The exhibition, organized and curated by Carmen Van Huisstede and Eleanor Street, celebrates women’s voices and their mutual support within the realm of art. In this exhibition, I showed two pieces, both part of a series titled The Plant Within. I chose two out of the four pieces that make up this series for exhibition, as they represent two poles within that series, one represents deterioration and the other permanence. 

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Blue Shop Gallery 2023 

After the MA Summer SHOW in July, I was contacted by Ocki Magill, gallery director of Blue Shop Gallery. She had seen my work during the MA Show and was interested in showing the triptych “Everything Moves; Everything Vibrates” at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. After meeting up and showing my portfolio we decided to also show “Dimensions of a Unified Whole”.  

The opportunity to show artwork at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair was highly rewarding, as it allowed me to share my work in a gallery setting with a broad range of print lovers, collectors, gallerists, and artists. The artwork was framed in raw walnut wood and anti-reflective glass, they were float-mounted so that the edges of the print were showcased. This opportunity also reminded me of the importance of keeping an up-to-date and well-kept social media platform and website, as the gallerist first came across my artwork through Instagram. 

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, a talk on Painterly Print with Blue Shop Gallery

On Saturday 28th of October, I participated in a gallery talk titled “Painterly Print”, where the Blue Shop Gallery director led a discussion with me and fellow artists Alice Hartley, and Constanza Pulit to discuss our printmaking process. The discussion took place inside of the Blue Shop Gallery stand at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. This talk gave me the opportunity to share and explain my approach to hydro-coat etching, dye-transfer etching, and aquatint, and how my print process subject itself to chance. I also talked briefly about my research and how it links directly with the process and methods that I employ. This talk gave me the platform to discuss my artwork in a public and professional setting. 

Tertulia Camberwell Lunch Salon, research presentation on: Animism, The World Soul, The Gaia Theory 

On the 12th of October, I participated as a speaker in the Tertulia Camberwell Lunch Salon, organized by MA drawing student Nele Bergman. The Tertulia Lunch Salon was an informal series of lunch gatherings where students from different MA Fine Art pathways discussed their research and interests through a 15-minute presentation. This was not a talk on our own artwork but a presentation on topics within our further academic or technical research. For my presentation, I chose the topics of Interconnection, Animism, and the World Soul. This talk was very beneficial to my research, as it allowed me to synthesize the key concepts that fuel my practice and to start thinking about how these concepts would feed into my Research Festival project.