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Marina BaiselAtelier MartisThibeau ScarcériauxSfossilsAlena MukhinaSofia KarnukaevaLumi UniNitush-ArooshIra BoykoMomoka GomiZlata KornilovaDROZHDINIAdriana MeuniéAlexandra VolskayaSee allPrivacy overview
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Sofia Karnukaeva
Barcelona, Spain
Sofia Karnukaeva, a Barcelona‑based artist and architect, observes and interprets the world around her through form and material, using an intuitive method of transformation. She explores how external conditions influence the emergence of new forms. In the shapes crafted by Sofia, one can perceive her endeavor to translate the abstract into the tangible and the intuitive into the sensory. Her tactile vessel‑sculptures evoke bodily and zoomorphic forms, bearing a resemblance to nests, beehives, or caves.
Sofia Karnukaeva’s sculptural vessels explore the primal connection between body, shelter, and transformation. Shaped through an intuitive process, her forms evoke natural enclosures — nests, wombs, beehives — spaces where life begins and adapts. Rooted in the experience of movement and change, her works reflect the tension between internal states and external conditions. Each object becomes a tactile meditation on home, memory, and metamorphosis, blurring the boundaries between the organic and the architectural. Crafted by hand and responsive to their environment, these sculptures invite quiet reflection on how we inhabit space — both within ourselves and in the world around us.
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The project refers to the theme of home and adaptation. Living organisms emerge into the world from various enclosed, chamber-like spaces like seeds, eggs, a womb, and then adapt to new habitats, new homes. The body of a living organism is inherently felt as both a vessel and a home. We intuitively retain this sensory knowledge within ourselves. Various changes, such as relocation, compel us to transform our inner and outer space, forcing to adapt in new ways. The artist uses an intuitive method to create tactile sculptures that evoke associations with both bodily and zoomorphic forms, while simultaneously resembling nests, beehives, or caves. Her handcrafted objects interact with the surrounding materials, allowing the environment to seemingly penetrate them, forming new assemblages and associations.
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