What does home mean to you? From childhood memories to national identities, Sophie Ernst’s HOME explores what the idea represents to people who have been forced to leave their homes behind.
Over several years, Sophie has built up an archive of interviews with artists, architects and historians, all with direct experience of migration. During each interview, she asks her subjects to draw out a floor plan of the house they grew up in – a process which is filmed and later projected onto a 3D model.
These physical models invite us inside the homes her subjects describe, encouraging us to relive memories with them and empathise with their experiences of loss.
Divided Selves: Memories, Legacies, Belonging was exhibited at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum from 18 February until 24 September 2023.
Herbert art talks episode 3: Drawing memories
Podcast, recorded by Heather Kincaid, in Coventry on 6.2.2023.
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Lecture: Art in Public Space – Nothing Stays the Same
Zoom lecture for the Art Bomb, Doncaster creates on 6.8.2021.
This lecture asks the questions which objects belong in public space, who is giving shape to public space, what is the function of art in public space and how should we give shape to that public space?
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Lecture: Unawareness of Heartbreak
Public lecture at the Paul Mellon Centre, London on 26.10.2017.
In this talk Sophie Ernst considers ‚What is Progress?‘, ‚What is Memory?‘ and ‚What is Art?‘.
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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, a project by artist Sophie Ernst. HOME is a major ongoing project confronting political turmoil and displacement with individual memories of home and ideal places. Ernst interviews people forced to leave their homes due to political upheaval, such as during the Partition of South Asia in 1947, and builds an architectural model of the houses they describe. She then projects onto this sculpture video footage of the person’s hands as they describe their memory of that building, transforming the inanimate object into a virtually inhabited space, and ascribing a profound intimacy.