Two works by Sophia Le Fraga

Büro BDP
July 7, 2011, From 18.00 to 20.00 pm

As a part of our exhibition series Exhibiting Literature, Büro BDP is proud

to present American writer Sophia Le Fraga. Le Fraga’s conceptual writings

often evolve around playful appropriations, erasures or cut-ups of already

existing texts. Her poems investigates the various possibilities of inserting

competing systems of signification within already given semantic structures,

hereby challenging, questioning and expanding our general use of language.

For her exhibition at Büro BDP, La Fraga will show two poem-installations,

which both deploy visual-aesthetic elements as crucial part-takers in the

poems’ formation of meaning. In these works color, image and space become

exactly as significant as the words themselves, hereby opening for the

possibility of remolding text into icon, and poem into painting.

Sophia Le Fraga (1990), raised in New York is finishing her B.A in Linguistics

and Poetry at New York University. Her work has appeared in The Last

Romantics, The Stolen Island Review and Lemon Hound. She currently

resides in Berlin.