Sophia Ericksen

b. 1998

Sophia Poppy Ericksen is a transgender artist who lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Delving into the intricate spaces that lie between different states of being, transitions, and metamorphoses, she explores the concepts of liminality and hauntology. Her artwork incorporates man-made structures and fragments, remnants of stories once known

but now lost, interwoven into a contemporary narrative. By engaging with hauntological themes such as presence and absence, she seeks to explore the complexities of grief as the embodiment of an absence, and the nature of time as a singular, fleeting moment in the

present, with the past and future existing only as memories or concepts. Her work traverses themes of gender identity, intimacy, childhood trauma, masculinity/femininity, war and violence

Sophia’s work examines the in-between spaces, the areas leading from one thing to the next – the hollow transition spaces. Fractures and fragments of forgotten places and people often appear in her work, pieces
of a story no longer known but still haunting the present as a part of some new narrative. Sophia seeks to unfold the hauntological nature of personal and societal ghosts through a combination of photography, collage, assemblage, and mixed media.