Mistakes I’ve Made and Remade

Sarah van Sonsbeeck
Mistakes I’ve Made and Remade, 2017
Graphite base faraday paint, gold leaf & perforated failed ideas
130 x 80 x 4.5 cm

About the work

Sarah van Sonsbeeck’s works are poetic with a basis in science. She was educated in architecture and art. In her artwork she touches on subjects related to these two fields. She tries to define space: private, public and outer pace. She also works with gold leaf and the various meanings the material gold has in society and arthistory. These two elements come together in this work.

With Mistakes I’ve Made and Remade, Sarah van Sonsbeeck transforms and re-activates two older works by literally using the waste of one to transform the other. Using an existing work she was unhappy with and gold leaf debris, which are strewn into faraday paint (blocking electromagnetic signals), Van Sonsbeeck takes the theme of space to its outer edge, re-creating the universe. She uses the waste of other artworlds (with no value) and gives them value again by making new work with these elements.