Lucretia
Location One Gallery, 
New York Lucretia was an installation performance in the  Soho gallery, Location One and was the culmination of Sophie’s one year residency with the gallery. Based on fragments of Benjamin Britten's opera The Rape of Lucretia - Lucretia centres on the image of a group of women spinning at a loom as their husbands are off waging war.

In this installation, Lucretia’s looms are transferred from the domestic sphere and changed into monitors; exacting machines capable of decoding information. Instead of pictures woven in tapestries or yarn, these women weave in a digital visual form.

A room made of fishing wire, monitors and screens hanging from varying heights. A scene that references  the whirring and clicking of the loom, the sewing machine, cogs and connectors, the telephone switchboard, the spectrum of beeps and tones that provide the soundtrack to modern technology and women’s connection and interaction with them.

The female performers  in the space operate in infinite detail; they become agents of change and controllers of information. The piece extracts various elements of the opera; the singers and orchestra, the narrative, and the operatic process itself, and deconstructs and examines them devoid of their original context. These are then rewoven to record an altogether new sonic experience - a densely knitted soundscape incorporating elements of live singing, recorded instruments and mechanical noise. Parallels are drawn between the act of weaving and the recording or ordering of information. Single threads from the visual and sound worlds combine and resign their original identity to become bound to and part of each other - assimilated into new forms and patterns.