Sophie Järvinen Postma makes drawings that raise questions. A very delicately drawn, strangely shaped object floats in space. Completely free, you feel – and yet it is precisely centred on a sheet of drawing paper. This creates tension. The object is softly coloured, the shapes strange and lovely at the same time. Each drawing has its origins in a hand of clay. While squeezing, turning and tearing, Sophie manages to let go of her strong desire to consciously shape the clay. With the clay, she places something physical in the world, which seems to float weightlessly on the paper. The image comes loose and floats in a vacuum. In the drawing, the material and thus gravity is lifted. This is the effect she wants to achieve, with a very specific purpose

The artist experiences emotions and impressions very physically. This allows her to reproduce what is going on inside her in a physical form in clay. By using ink and pastel to record the most pronounced form that arises during this process on paper, she succeeds in revealing the soul hidden in the clay form. Colour is essential here. In her drawings, she carefully captures surprising ‘imperfections’ that arise during the clay process, based on photos she takes during the process. Floating in a vacuum, the representation of her emotions becomes detached from the material. The image that appears rounded on the paper, the artist experiences as a message from her subconscious.

Sophie Järvinen Postma (1980) lives and works in Amsterdam (NL).