Sofiia Sorokina↓

About the work

The Way of the Heart

Sofiia Sorokina is an intermedia artist, fortune teller, and DJ. Her work encompasses the mediums of painting, sculpture, performance, and sound, with a focus on the themes of mysticism, social equality, animal rights, and the preservation of cultural heritage.

Sorokina’s work is characterized by the use of a timeless visual language inspired by medieval hermeticism and contemporary post-internet culture, coupled with an attempt at connecting the past with the present while reflecting on current social and cultural issues.

Occult ideas form an integral part of her life, and so for her graduation work Sofiia has created her own set of tarot cards – for her personal use and as a tool for self-reflection. Focusing intensely on each card, she delved into her subconscious, her fears, and her traumas. The tarot cards are an intimate work of art that contains elements of her life, but they have also been a means of healing and self-discovery, and she hopes that their users will use them for more than just predicting the future.

The cards’ visual design is based on the artist’s personal records of her visits to historical and religious sites throughout the Czech Republic. They represent the culmination of a long-term research project in which she has sought to record and describe the country’s disappearing landscape – ruins of churches and castles.