Sonya Derviz
Shifting and layered, so often obliterated into her own dialect of soft chaos, Derviz’s compositions react to collated, ephemeral visual sources, from found drawings, illustrations, paintings and film stills. Focusing not on the image as a whole, but on the specific elements contained within it, she draws in and repeatedly readjusts these pictures until they dissipate into new metaphysical shapes. This fragmentation allows her to consider these strands as if solely visual, re-writing them into an intuitive artistic language that veers towards expression and emotion over linearity and fixed ideas.
“On Dissevered Dreams: Sonya Derviz in Conversation with Mazzy-Mae Green”, Curatorial Affairs, 2023
“The Top 5 Exhibitions to See After Frieze Week”, FAD Magazine, 2023
“INTO MY ARMS: SONYA DERVIZ, MY-LAN HOANG-THUY, SHAMIRAN ISTIFAN AND LI LI REN”, FAD Magazine, 2023
“The best exhibitions to visit in March”, Bricks Magazine, 2022
“Collective Ending presents Lewis Brander and Sonya Derviz, First Light”, FAD Magazine, 2022
“Three shows to see in London this weekend”, FAD Magazine, 2022
Interview, Floorr Magazine, 2019
“Best things to see at Frieze 2019” by Natasha Arselan, GQ, 2019
“Art subject: Sonya Derviz” by Aleksei Zimin, Zima Magazine, 2019
“Discovery Channels”, Financial Times, 2018