Sophie Kitching's 'Nuits Américaines' Explores Memory and Landscape

Sophie Kitching's exhibition 'Nuits Américaines' at an unspecified venue originates from a passage where Chateaubriand felt the 'wild and sublime' nature of America. Kitching interprets this nocturnal experience through synesthesia, creating works that treat memory as both art object and perceptual space. The exhibition spans three rooms, featuring paintings (Falls, 2014), music (La Nuit de Chateaubriand II, 2017), and installations. La Nuit de Chateaubriand II is an immersive installation where recurring words form a cartography animated by moonlight, inviting viewers to explore memory's expression through organ music mimicking water and visual language. Home grown garden (2017) offers a mirrored reading of Chateaubriand's garden, composing a puzzle of images and materials (dust, glass shards, marble, mirror). The exhibition redefines interior/exterior boundaries and questions the limits of image and imagination. Kitching, a 2014 graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs de Paris, lives and works in Paris and New York.