Sophie Milner at Art Athina 2024: Athens

A cat calmly watches a smoking volcano in the distance, ants infest a recently vacated room, snails mate in wet summer nights. In these new series of works, animals animate the in between moments of our domestic lives and consciousness. Their intentions are cast ambiguous, their agency as playful pets or malevolent pests left undetermined. They imbue the scenes with subtle tension or absurdity, reconfiguring elements of the domestic into the realm of symbolic storytelling, evoking aspects of fable like stories, and intermingling these with personal observations and possibilities within painting.