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Sonia Boué 2023
Statement
Sonia Boué is a multiform artist. She is also a writer on autism and art, and a consultant for neurodiversity in the arts. She has a significant archive of postmemory work and her current focus is neuro-inclusive practice-led research.
Sonia is a Board member for a-n The Artists Information Company and Artist Member for CVAN SE and member of the acquisitions panel for NDACA. She has designed and facilitated anti-ableist training for the Wellcome Collection's Social Justice Curriculum, and worked with Plus Tate Network and DANC/TripleC on a series of events for the Network. She recently convened the event Beyond othering - curatorial practice and the neurodiversity paradigm for the British Art Network's tenth Annual Conference. You can follow Sonia on Instagram and Twitter, and see more of her work on her website.
“Story telling around the objects I find, allows me to be both autobiographical and to comment on the wider picture. Disparate fragments of experience, memory and observation become 'fixed' on a surface in a work providing layers or snatches of meaning and narrative. I am especially aware that at any moment the composition could change, be blown by the wind and scattered again. My work makes a show of permanence, a semblance of coherence from what is essentially temporal and chaotic.”
Using discarded objects and materials, she fashions new narratives often referencing domestic interiors and childhood games. Assemblage, painting and performance form the basis of a most recent move towards installation in her practice. The work is research based, weaving together history and autobiography.
Barcelona in Bag is Sonia’s project about exile following the Spanish Civil War.