Sophie Vanhomwegen

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Sophie Vanhomwegen (b. 1988, Brussels, Belgium) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brussels. In her work, she interprets human contradictions, translating them into alienating visual compositions.

After obtaining a Master’s degree in Media Arts at the School of Arts in Ghent, she completed a two-year postgraduate program in Transmedia at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels. This program focused on hybrid art forms. There, she pursued both practical and theoretical research into how images are constructed through formal principles of composition, pleasing the senses while shaping a specific way of looking. 

Sophie cultivates an acute awareness of the power images hold: how they seduce, manipulate, and shape perception. She collects advertising magazines and printed matter, cutting into their seductive surfaces and reassembling fragments into new compositions. From 2012, Sophie shifted toward a more analog approach, driven by a need for materiality after years of working exclusively on screen.