Universo Dentro
Sophie Whettnall
‘And now a secret:
I suspended the universe,
opened it,
then I gathered myself up
into a handful of ashes’
- Etel Adnan, verse from No Sky
/Ce Ciel qui n’est pas, 2008
Universo Dentro is a hand-made starry sky above the inner courtyard of STUK.
Awe-inspiring, the installation is a tribute to the vastness of the universe, recognizing our presence amongst the stars, and an invitation to contemplate the depths of your own universo dentro.
2021, 2024 - mirror foil, pierced, 13 x 19m
Courtesy of the artist and Michel Rein
Sophie Whettnall
°1973, Belgium
Sophie Whettnall is a visual artist working across video, performance, drawing and installation. Her practice is greatly influenced by painting, landscape in particular, and its durational sensorial experience. Her main material is light and its elusive, disorienting and seductive effects. With it she teases our sense of sight and questions the idea that seeing equals understanding. In 1999 Whettnall won the Young Belgian Painting prize (currently Belgian Art Price). Her works have been exhibited at a.o. Centrale for Contemporary Art Brussel (BE), Michel Rein Paris and Brussels (FR - BE), Museum Roger Raveel (BE), BOZAR - Paleis voor Schone Kunsten Brussel (BE), Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhães (BR), Galleria Continua (IT – FR), Fundació Joan Miró (ES), Utah Museum of Fine Arts (US), MAC Grand Hornu (BE) and the 52nd Venice Biennale (IT). Sophie Whettnall is represented by Gallery Michel Rein. She lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.