Sofia Sipsa

In a gloomy room where we only glimpse a faint light from a distant place, we meet the character Förlust. Wherever Förlust turns, she encounters partially faded images and objects. They feel strange but still they seemingly want to remind her of something. She can do nothing but fill them in.

In front of her, a young girl is revealed who, in her loneliness, begins to concentrate more and more on a bruise she has received above her hip. It is reassuring to press, almost as with a stitch. When she wakes up one morning and eagerly pulls up her shirt to press the bruise, there is only a pink scar left. Next to her, she notices how something warm is moving. That is when she meets Förlust.

Sofia Sipsa is a multidisciplinary artist. Her work I mina salta tårars lag is a poetical audiovisual installation that explores defence mechanisms in relation to loss and the traces they leave on our bodies. The work asks: What happens when the same strategies that help us survive become harmful in themselves, and instead of healing a wound, allow it to fester?