i think that my favourite thing to happen in art history is when a guy made a Lucifer statue that was too hot for church so they commissioned his brother who made an even hotter one
“My sculpture/performance piece is inspired by Carl Jung’s psychological theory about the shadow. It concerns with the repressed ideas, weakness, and desires of oneself that the conscious mind refuses to acknowledge.”
Selected works between 2010-2013, various dimensions, various materials.
B. 1977 and lives in Portugal, Sofia Leitão has Degrees in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Oporto (2005) and Drawing from the Superior School of Fine Arts of Oporto (2000).
Her work and exhibition projects can be found in both national institutions and private collections in Austria, Portugal, Spain, and the USA.
