Visual Essay
Sofia Sinibaldi builds images through layered accumulation, merging photography and portable scanner captures to create figures that exist in conversation with one another. Her recent focus turns to New York’s City Hall, territory she crosses daily between home and studio. The courthouse draws her attention as a stage where media converges and power becomes visible, and her work captures the ceremonial rhythms and physical presence of civic institutions.
Sofia Sinibaldi (1992, Guatemala City) lives and works in New York. She received her BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2016. Sinibaldi's recent solo exhibitions include Souvenirs and Substitution, Chapter NY, New York; Half of Me, Inge, Plainview, NY; You’re So in Your Head, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York; Eye to Eye Delirium, Interstate Projects, New York; and Y2K Gallery, San Francisco. Her work has been included in group and two-person exhibitions at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York; Pio Pico, Los Angeles; Gern en Regalia, New York; and Red Zone, Los Angeles; among others. Her work has been published by SEVEN and PM Books. She is included in an upcoming group exhibition at SculptureCenter in the fall.
All images courtesy the artist.
Every day I pass through the imposing and monumental architecture of Civic Center in downtown New York to get to my studio. The architectural backdrop of my commute also serves as the theatrical stage for dramas unfolding in the courts. My preoccupation with these scenes coincided with Frederick Wiseman’s retrospective at Lincoln Center. Wiseman’s film City Hall (2020) is an earnest attempt to observe more quotidian micro-dramas happening within those walls.
“WE LIVE IN REAL TIME” a note flies up with the wind on Centre Street as New York City Comptroller gives a press conference that indicates we’re entering into a new vibe shift.
Interpretations of the law are subject to climatological shifting.
Structures that communicate their immutable permanence efface the transience of interpretation.
Visual Essay
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