Sofia Mussolin is an artist-researcher located in Brazil. The artistic practice between audiovisual and performance unfolds together with concepts borrowed from ecology and anthropology to think about multi-species narratives and beyond-human perspectives of inhabiting the world.

Fable-making and speculation are the way to produce narratives that bring together nature and the human, that speak of an ecology of the image. Questioning the world as it is also implies questioning the images we produce of it, that is, the intention is to remove the human representation from the center of the images and show any other aspect that the territory brings to mind. The void, a specter, the other-than-human, to give way to the fantastic that is mundane, common, and not allied to the discourse of the end of the world, but rather of layers that overlap and ferment. To return to the primary vocation of the camera and of cinema, which is to collate, add, mix and speculate narratives.

Bio

Sofia Mussolin is an artist-researcher with a degree in Image and Sound from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), studied Design and Multimedia at the University of Coimbra (UC – Portugal) through the Santander Luso-Brazilian Scholarship Program, holds a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGAV/UFRJ) with a CAPES scholarship and is currently a PhD student in Contemporary Art Studies at the Federal University of Fluminense (PPGCA/UFF) with a CNPq scholarship. Linked to BrisaLab (UFF/FAPERJ) and the project “Sensitive Territories: Guanabara Bay” – Prince Claus Fund and Goethe Institute. She has participated in exhibitions and festivals in Brazil and abroad, such as the international exhibition on the Goethe Institut Germany “Take me to the River” platform (2020); the video-scene “Não se pode tocar, está em mim, está em nós” commissioned by Itaú Cultural (2021) and shown at the Guanajuato International Experimental Festival, MX (2023). “Hutukara”, shown at the Ecoperformance International Festival, BR (2023), and ‘A estrutura cospe um sambaqui’ at the Alkantara Festival, Lisbon, PT (2023).