“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion”
― Simone de Beauvoir

By this yardstick Sofie Muller’s work has incalculable worth. For Muller’s extraordinary practice is simultaneously both a humble expression of compassion, of love and an ambitious statement on the frailties and tenacity of the human condition.

In a global political climate that is collapsing into the most inarticulate binary positions, Muller’s own articulation of the human condition is conscious and nuanced. Free of dogma and strained argument, Muller embraces venerable yet flawed materials ― that together with her uncommon facility, manifest objects, both sculptures and paintings, that are immediately affiliated with the long arc of herstory.

Yet for all their alliance with precedence, these works assert a powerful immediacy and relevance that feels demanded by this moment. Her works capacity to utterly transcend time, inadvertently mocking the flimsiness of fashion with its intimate, humanitarian symbolism is enormously affecting.

The sculptures and paintings that comprise Solitaries are each contained expressions of defiance and vulnerability and together as a family they demonstrate a resolve to do as de Beauvoir observes ― to behave with love, friendship and compassion.