Guest artist

Sophie Lazari, born in Bologna in 1997, lives and works in Berlin, where she completed her Bachelor of Arts in Illustration in 2022. Her range spans illustration and painting, graphics and performance, through to tattoo art.
Her work revolves around social, political and cultural themes, which she translates into a colourful language of patterns and shapes. For the Triennale Klausen she presents two works from the series Bodies in acrylic and screen-printing ink on canvas.

Being human means feeling emotions. To know, not to know. We are limited. And yet we are part of the great whole, but we are not God. In our essence we are at once divine, but also driven by our senses; we are not animals, but at times animalistic. We possess an ego and we possess a super-ego. In this world – a world made of shadow and light, good and evil, male and female, a dual world – being human means experiencing the shades of grey in between and finding the balance. Within as without, above as below, in good and in bad. Being human is finitude and infinity.