Sophie Dumaresq
Working across photo‑media, installation, sculpture, and performance, Sophie Dumaresq explores what it means to share joy, love, and laughter in our relationships with other humans and non‑humans. Her studio and performance practices are grounded and intertwined with her role as both a performer and maker. The physicality and limitations of her own body and mind, and her collaborators, including her dog Frankie, and their surrounding environments/landscapes, help explore what it is to try to communicate in a universe filled with beings whose brains, existence, and/or bodies are built inherently differently from our own.
A shark returns to Kandos. Meet and sit with Baby (the handmade mechanical shark) while watching a bittersweet video of the artist and her dog/camera beast, Frankie, attempting to share a sunset with the shark at the top of ‘Baldy’, a local Kandos mountain peak. What’s in a postcard? Baby, I just wanted to make you smile in Kandos is a cinematic endurance performance in which the artist attempts to pull her handmade mechanical shark up the slope of a mountain to share a sunset together.
