For her first solo exhibition with the gallery and in London, Sophie Birch (b. 1992, UK) presents a new body of paintings that move between the intimate and the elusive, where drawing, memory, and atmosphere become ways of thinking through states of becoming. Inspired by her time during her residency at Domus Nostra in Rome, the new works emerge alongside readings of Carl Jung’s ‘Memories, Dreams, Reflections’ and sustained observations of the artist’s surroundings.
Jung’s image of the house as a symbol of the psyche becomes a guiding thread, opening onto a constellation of recurring forms: mosaic floors, skulls, houses, books, bodies, alongside her interest in the metaphysical architectures of Giorgio de Chirico. These motifs do not appear as fixed symbols, but as containers of psychological and imaginative space. Through Birch’s process of drawing and painting, they become permeable, as though touched by the atmosphere around them. Forms seem to hold, conceal, or give shape to something that hovers between recognition and disappearance, inviting the viewer into a space where meaning remains fluid and unsettled.