In her performances, Sophie Schmidt appears as a hybrid body. Using everyday objects, she expands her body like a prosthesis. These extensions are based on the figure of thought "the cyborg" of the utopian feminist Donna Haraway: there are many connected bodies, human, animal and machine in one and thus also lived social relationships and world-changing fiction. In its so-called activations, the body experiences a transformation that tries to overcome the boundaries between different forms of being.
Socially constructed narratives about the body are renegotiated. Schmidt's prostheses trip, slow down and complicate. They are friendly but also resistant. They laugh, scream, cry and disturb. They destroy and fail to start again. Texts written by her, poetic in their own way, spoken aloud or sung, build bridges between drawings, paintings and sculptures. As part of the exhibition 'Rosa Immergruen' and the Kunstareal-Fest 2023 from 13 to 16 July, Schmidt presents the activation of the Radicchiofrau.
