Measurements, political borders and cities disappear. Presented processionally, all these maps depict different parts of the world and are covered in blackboard paint. Here the visitor encounters a universe of school-like blackboard maps. One room in the gallery is devoted to the notion of borders and restrictions and has the title, Worlds. The exhibition title’s proposition, of gravity being a habit, targets precisely our unquestioning lethargy of accepting the familiar and given, instead of changing things. The joy of the physical experiment, including the illusion of common ways of seeing is what characterises Pompéry’s oeuvre. Consequently, Sophia Pompéry almost incidentally examines philosophical questions regarding the nature of spatial and temporal perception.

These impartial works enjoy various levels of interpretation and evoke associations of current political events such as migration or the destruction of cultural heritage. Installation, photography and sculpture are employed by Pompéry to address the exhibition’s concept of “visual projections”, in which everyday objects such as maps and vases are transformed into parables. With Gravity is just a Habit, Sophia Pompéry presents her second solo exhibition with the gallery.

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