Sophie Schreurs was born in 1995 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She lives and works in Amsterdam.

Mail: sophie1schreurs@gmail.com
Phone: +31 (0) 6 26 40 50 98


"My work centers around the alienation symptomatic of Western contemporary society. I experienced alienation in my youth – while moving from the city to a small town as a queer child with two mothers – I felt disconnected from the world, my surroundings, and the people around me, and trapped inside my body while simultaneously feeling disembodied. This physical manifestation is reflected in my installations.

The economic and social frameworks of alienation, are expressed in various ways in my work: I make the feeling of alienation tangible in Corpus Alienum, visualize (digital) consumerism in Self Portrait Afflicted by Time and Corpus Alienum, reveal systems that cause alienation in The Fed Underbelly of Silicon Valley, and explore the reduction of the human condition in De Stik Mens and Two-Dimensional Man.

Besides depicting the body, I aim to engage the visitor's body. I want to stimulate all senses; smell, hearing, sight, and touch all play a role. Thereby, the visitor often has to sit, crawl, or bend deeply (e.g. to see a video placed on the ground). For my immersive installations, I see the visitor’s body as part of the work.

I primarily work with natural materials that eventually decay, leaving only metal structures (and electronics) behind as a skeleton – just like the many people who will perish while the systems endure."