Charlie Sofo

Charlie Sofo was born in 1983 in Melbourne where he currently lives and works.

Sofo’s is both a process-based and an object-based practice in which materials seek out the artist out as much as he has sought them. The two happen upon each other, and proceed to work together collaboratively, often incorporating rhythmic gestures. This results in displays, depictions, descriptions, and constructions, of and about objects. These are not simply objects ‘found’ by the artist and used to compositional or conceptual ends. They have, for example, been dislodged from the soles of his shoes or have found their way through a hole in his pocket and out his trouser-cuff. Sofo doesn’t revere these objects or ascribe them meaning. Rather, he affords them the breathing space to perhaps say something to him, and subsequently to us. Chloe Wolifson 2015

Sofo's work has been included in We Change the World, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne (2021), All that was solid melts, curated by Juliana Engberg, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand (2021), On Vulnerability and Doubt, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2019),  Queer Economies, Bus Projects, Melbourne (2019) occupy and echo ( a stage ), ReadingRoom, Melbourne (2019), The Score, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne (2017), As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea (2016) and The Documentary Take: Walker Evens and Selected Australian Art, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2016).