Sophia Lapres

Lapres’s work exists in-between painting and writing. She combines a studio practice with a writing practice, making paintings to illustrate her writing, and writing to narrativize her paintings. The effect is a looping translation. Confessional a...

Lapres’s work exists in-between painting and writing. She combines a studio practice with a writing practice, making paintings to illustrate her writing, and writing to narrativize her paintings. The effect is a looping translation. Confessional and voyeuristic at once, fantasy, desire, and shame are central to her work.