Sofiia Yesakova (b. 1998) lives and works in Berlin. She is a current participant in the Berlin postgraduate Program Goldrausch Künstlerinnen. Sofiia is also a member of Frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin and member of the curatorial board.
Central to her artistic practice is the research into the increasing role of information in regulating human behaviour, total control, as well as the rapid adaptation to any situation and the reduction of everything to statistics. A search for truth in a stream of interference. Sophia has chosen lifeless language as an alternative form of artistic narrative - a diagram or an engineering-like schematic drawing. Bureaucratically consistent, dry and lifeless.
She uses language of minimalism, but also focuses on expressing thoughts and emotions, reflecting, and conveying the atmosphere, that is, what minimalism has tried to deny and possibly suppress. For Sofiia, the balance between emotionality and rationality is important (the direction that prefers the mind to the senses in cognition, turns away from sensory reality).
Now a main material for the artist is gesso, wood and a lot of layers of gelatine. Sofiia also creates installations, interacting with the space and using different materials.
"In recent years, I have been inspired by the idea of ciphering and creating a certain structure of visual storytelling. I was inspired to do this by the engineering drawings of my partner, who is a civil engineer by profession. These drawings are also a certain cipher that few can read. "