Sonya Blesofsky
““The bricks in the yard felt like potential energy, and I wanted to utilize it. I considered the stucco a sort of visual erasing of the brickwork on the façade of my great grandparents’ home, and thought about how that erasure is akin to the erasure of histories in gentrified areas” ”
Sonyas work confronts urban change and explores how objects found in a particular place can inform us about that site. The sculptures she creates are often precarious and spindly, to speak to a fragility inherent to memory and history. Her project at RAIR had begun to utilize found architectural elements to create a series of sculptures that relate to: place, the found object itself, and our ability to imagine pasts and futures all at once in a set of objects. Sonya’s residency began in Late February 2020 and was cut short by the Pandemic. As seen in the images of her last week at RAIR, she had begun to create a wall out of brick that she had pulled from the wastestream.
