Sofia Rudi Kent is a practicing artist and researcher. Her work attempts to live as a piece of institutional critique, utilising 3D modeling and archival research to investigate the paradigms and archaic conventions of the museum world. She looks to the past to uncover the issues behind the current retention of plundered artefacts and their imperial histories. In particular, she explores the ethics of ownership, as the ghosts of colonialism continue to haunt modernity. The marriage of technology and art motivates her everyday process and practice. Through the use of archives, historical records, and online resources, she uncovers the amnesia of the colonialist cycle that so informed Ireland's past.

Sofia Rudi Kent

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Still from ‘may the peacock have its call and dance’ by Sofia Rudi Kent, archival research, moving image and gaming software, 2021.

Image courtesy of the artist.