Sophronia Cook, Barcelona Laundry Bottle, 2025

2025

Medium

Etchings, resin, charcoal, image and parachute fabric

Dimensions

102 × 63.5 cm

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-156237

In “A Cap of Consciousness Over Your Head” (2025) and “Barcelona Laundry Bottle” (2025), Sophronia Cook continues her exploration of replication, materiality, and formal condensation, which characterize her work. Both assemblages combine painting, sculptural elements, and printmaking techniques to create multi-layered pictorial bodies in which recurring motifs form their own visual vocabulary. The starting point is everyday objects—such as the pink detergent bottle in "Barcelona Laundry Bottle"—which Cook transforms through casts, rubbings, and transfers. In the process, they detach themselves from the original object and become structural elements within a self-referential system of forms. In both works, parachute fabric forms the top layer: a translucent, malleable material whose drapery evokes art-historical questions of drapery and physicality. Cook uses this textile skin as an additional concealing but also semi-transparent layer that reveals the underlying process and emphasizes the temporal dimension of layering. A shell cast from aluminum—a recurring motif in her work—becomes the sculptural link between the works in "A Cap of Consciousness Over Your Head". This creates dense pictorial spaces in which materials, fragments of memory, and repeated forms intertwine. Cook's practice develops an open structure in which each layer migrates, reforms, and becomes part of a growing, circulating cosmos.