Sofía Clausse: Labyrinth

Municipal Bonds is pleased to announce our first presentation of the London-based Argentinian artist Sofía Clausse. On view May 3–June 24, Sofía Clausse: Labyrinth will mark the artist’s debut solo exhibition in the United States. Join us for the Artist Reception on Saturday, May 6, from 5 to 7pm.

Through her recent paintings and works on paper, Clausse creates a dynamic visual universe that explores the interconnections of elements, materials, symbols, and thoughts. At the heart of the exhibition is a wall diagram that seeks to explore information—not explain. Words are joined through lines, knotting themselves together into a linguistic mesh. Like a net cast into a sea of words, the diagram gathers works that are made of other lines, creating a repetition and circular process that is central to Clausse’s practice.

Clausse’s methodology is rooted in her tools and materials, which she creates and studies to understand their unique behavior and mark-making. She develops systems and structures that generate new work from previous pieces, establishing a cyclical production model. This approach makes the oeuvre into an ouroboros, an ancient symbol of infinity and self-renewal, continuously expanding as it regenerates from itself.

Inspired by the history of Latin American weaving and concrete poetry, Clausse’s work explores the dualism between text and textile, tangible and intangible, literal and abstract. The line is the constant unit in the works, binding all together and generating connections. Lines become thread, become text, become paths—which loop and knot into a Borgean labyrinth—exploring what it means to belong while ever-changing.

Sofía Clausse (b. 1989, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a multidisciplinary artist based in London, UK. She completed her BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design (2014), and the postgraduate program in Fine Arts at the Royal Academy Schools in London (2022). Following her graduation show at the Royal Academy of Arts, Clausse was awarded the Almacantar Art Prize providing her with a free studio in London for a year. Most recently, she was selected for an artist grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2023).

Clausse’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Slugtown Gallery, Newcastle, UK (2022); Eve Leibe Gallery, London (2021); and Kupfer, curated by Inês Geraldes Cardoso, London (2021). She has exhibited in group shows in the UK and US including: Where’s the Frame, London (2022); Grove Collective, London (2021); Guts Gallery, London (2021); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2020); Eve Leibe Gallery (2020); Nationale Gallery, Portland, OR (2020); Special Special Gallery, New York, NY (2020); Koppel Project Exchange, London (2020); The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ, London (2019); Ginny Projects, London (2019). Upcoming, Clausse will take part in a two-month residency at PADA Studios in Lisbon, Portugal (2023).