Sophie Mallett is an artist and filmmaker working in London. Her practice concentrates on how our financial, architectural and social worlds are constructed and controlled, and in turn affect our ability to co-exist. Using video, text, installation and sound she pursues a practice at the intersection of affect, politics and value. Through close attention she opens up spaces of discomfort that acknowledge clandestine societal norms, complicity and dysfunctional ethics.

Educated at Open School East, London College of Communication and Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Mallett’s practice is both interdisciplinary and collaborative, with a reflexive emphasis on how individuals work together. Recent works and projects include: ‘Lol, sploot, blep, blop, bork’, Deptford X, London (2019); ‘Our Gelatinous Past’, Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam (2019); ‘Thousands of us cluster together’, Artnight, London (2019); ‘The distance is nowhere', ICA, Miami (2019) and GAM, Palermo (2018); ‘To whom it was given’, Groundworks, Cornwall (2018); Artist-in-residence, Hangar/ Gasworks, Lisbon (2017); 'National Anthems', ICA, London & CCA, Derry~Londonderry (2017); ‘Portrait (for a score)’, Tenderpixel, London (2017); ‘Paradise Island’, OUTPOST, Norwich (2017); ‘Hypersea’, Turner Contemporary, Margate (2016); ‘Our country, our love, our sadness’, [SPACE], London (2016); ‘Horrid little hands’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2016); ‘Liminal States’, RCA, London, (2016).

Image credit: Sophie Mallett, Our Gelatinous Past, 2018 Video Stills. Courtesy of the artist.