Statement

Artist Statement

Sophia Mason approaches mormonism like a curator let loose in a museum’s storage rooms. She works in soft sculpture, drawing, and mixed media and creates installations and short performance pieces that employ an academic voice, but betray her mormon upbringing. When She assigns traditional sewing and common materials like office paper to critically view the church’s history, she severs the culture from its internal logic. In the new exhibits she creates, the work deals with the Nineteenth century colonial, white supremacist, and heterosexist values preserved in the church’s traditions and in white American culture more broadly.