What does home mean to you? Sophie Ernst’s HOME explores this question through personal memories and the complex experiences of people forced to leave their homes behind. Over several years, Ernst has built an archive of filmed interviews with artists, architects, and historians who experienced migration, asking each to draw their childhood home from memory. Projected onto 3D models, these drawings become intimate, inhabitable spaces, inviting us to share and empathise with their sense of loss.
Divided Selves: Memories, Legacies, Belonging was exhibited at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum (18 February – 24 September 2023).
Herbert art talks episode 3: Drawing memories
Podcast Interviewer: Heather Kincaid, Coventry,6 February 2023
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Lecture: Art in Public Space – Nothing Stays the Same
Zoom Lecture for Art Bomb, Doncaster Creates, 6 August 2021
This lecture explores questions such as: Which objects belong in public spaces? Who shapes these spaces? What role does art play in public environments, and how can we thoughtfully design these shared places?
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Lecture: Unawareness of Heartbreak
Paul Mellon Centre, London, 26 October 2017
In this public lecture, Sophie Ernst explores the intertwined questions: What is Progress?, What is Memory?, and What is Art? Reflecting critically on how notions of progress shape collective memories and artistic expression, Ernst examines how art can illuminate the emotional dimensions often overlooked in historical narratives.
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Video interview
KABK, Den Haag, 2016. Interviewer: Lotte Betting.
An interview with Sophie Ernst in the exhibition ‘Memory: Architecture of Belonging’, installed in the gallery of the Royal Academy of Art The Hague from 30.11. – 8.12. December 2016 on the occasion of the public defense of her dissertation at Leiden University.
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Lecture: HOME, Lines, Places, Stories
Institut d’études avancées de Paris, 14.03. 2014.
Dans le cadre du colloque international – Figurer l’exil, Sophie ERNST introduit le concept de l’exil à travers son projet HOME. Le projet HOME confronte les troubles politiques et les mémoires individuelles d’endroits considérés comme imaginaires, puisque relevant de l’esprit des individus même s’ils ont existé.
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Video Interview
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2012. Interviewer: Helen Pheby
A short film about HOME, an ongoing project by Sophie Ernst exploring displacement, memory, and belonging. Ernst interviews individuals forced to leave their homes due to political events, such as the 1947 Partition of South Asia. Architectural models of remembered houses become projection surfaces, where videos of participants‘ hands tracing their memories transform static sculptures into intimate, virtually inhabited spaces.