Kawala Play

Sophia Pompéry’s videos and installations reflect her interest in everyday objects, as well as physical and optical phenomena. Manipulating forms of perception, the artist draws the viewer into an enigmatic yet fascinating and poetic world. Her videos, designed with uncomplicated visual aspects, bear similar characteristics with the medium of painting.

In her video "Kawala Play", Pompéry plays a monotonous note with a traditional flute called kawala as a soap bubble begins to grow from the end, which shines and takes on colour as it expands, reflecting the artist’s hands holding the flute and the room around it. While "Kawala Play" intertwines the visual with the aural to make sound visible, also translates the act of painting into a different medium.