Installation view

Sophie Reinhold »Hall of mirrors«

Mexico City, March 22, 2025 - May 03, 2025

Galerie Nordenhake is pleased to present Sophie Reinhold's first exhibition in Mexico, Hall of Mirrors, the result of a six-month residency in Mexico City.

The works are created by the artist using meteorological schemes, completed with intuitive gestures. Each painting is structured around a duality: frame and content, the documentary and the fictional. A sense of reason is reflected in the use of weather forecasts, which aim to predict, understand, and control. Reinhold embraces a more universal form of painting where color, energy, and confidence speak a language beyond words.

The technical process remains visible: jute stretched over a panel, with multiple layers of marble powder applied using the artist's hands and polished to achieve a variety of reflections and reliefs, before being colored in oil.

Reinhold, born in East Berlin in 1981, grew up during a turbulent time in history with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now and then, ideas of truth were constantly challenged.

Her technique, combined with her artistic skill and a sharp sense of humor, opens up space for dialogue. Hall of Mirrors is an invitation to navigate the space through both the intuitive and the rational, in search of an orientation that hides among the reflections.

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Installation view

The Life of the Mind V, 2024-2025, oil, graphite, marble powder, pigmented marble powder on jute, 155 x 240 cm, 61 x 94 1/2 in

The Life of the Mind VI, 2024-2025, graphite, marble powder, pigmented marble powder on jute, 155 x 240 cm, 61 x 94 1/2 in

Installation view with The Life of the Mind V, 2024-2025, oil, graphite, marble powder, pigmented marble powder on jute, 155 x 240 cm, 61 x 94 1/2 in and The Life of the Mind VI, 2024-2025, graphite, marble powder, pigmented marble powder on jute, 155 x 240 cm, 61 x 94 1/2 in

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Installation view with The Life of the Mind III, 2024-2025, oil, bitumen, marble powder, pigmented marble powder on jute, 160 x 190 cm, 63 x 74 3/4 in and The Life of the Mind IV, 2024-2025, oil, bitumen, marble powder, pigmented marble powder on jute, 160 x 190 cm, 63 x 74 3/4 in

The Life of the Mind IV, 2024-2025, oil, bitumen, marble powder, pigmented marble powder on jute, 160 x 190 cm, 63 x 74 3/4 in

The Life of the Mind IV, 2024-2025, oil, bitumen, marble powder, pigmented marble powder on jute, 160 x 190 cm, 63 x 74 3/4 in

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Installation view with The Life of the Mind I, 2024-2025, oil, graphite, marble powder, pigmented marble powder on jute, 220 x 180 cm, 86 5/8 x 70 7/8 in and The Life of the Mind II, 2024-2025, oil, marble powder, pigmented marble powder on jute, 220 x 180 cm, 86 5/8 x 70 7/8 in