Kudos acknowledges and pays respect to the Gadigal and Bidjigal people of the Eora nation. They are the traditional custodians of the land Kudos operates on. We create, design, share, and exchange our work and knowledge on this important meeting place. We pay our respects to elders past and present and extend that respect to any First Nations people who engage with Kudos. This is and always will be Aboriginal land.


AboutResources
Sophia Olivieri
Sophia Olivieri is a young artist working on Gadigal land, her practice investigates ideas of femininity, gender dynamics and public versus private space. She often explores the ways in which images, tropes and narratives are naturalised to us through the media and Hollywood, being influenced by Hollywood films which explore stereotypes of female subordination and hypermasculinity. Often her work looks at different avenues in which existing media and imagery can be reframed, dissected and decontextualised through unconventional materials and surfaces, such as tiling and fabric, utilising materials often associated with the domestic and the feminine. In dissecting this media she often seeks out a new dialogue and interaction with the image, encouraging audiences to decipher the obscured iconography before them. 

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Porcelain

Sophia Olivieri, Porcelain, 2023, engraving onto porcelain tiles. Dimensions variable. 
My artwork Porcelain is made up of fifteen laser engraved bathroom tiles which depict mise-en-scenes of women within the space of the bathroom, derived from films spanning across various genres and time periods. The work investigates the bathroom as a filmic space, often being emblematic of vulnerability and intervention into one's privacy. I chose to highlight the various tropes which tend to ruminate within the bathroom such as female objectification and voyeurism, violence against women within the horror genre and female contemplation. Narratively, the private and intimate space of the bathroom is employed by filmmakers as an area in which climax and eruption occurs through confrontation, inspection and exposure. The tension between 'privacy' and 'intervention' within the space is further emphasised through the etching of the tiles, which provides a degree of invisibility until it is manoeuvred by audiences and shifted under the light, revealing the mise-en-scene's iconography.










Kudos is proudly supported by Arc Creative and Arc UNSW Student Life