Sonya Rademeyer is a visual artist based close to Cape Town, South Africa. She received her BA (FA) at Willem de Kooning Academy in 1996 during which time she concurrently worked as a cardiac nurse as Dijkzigt Academisch Ziekenhuis in Rotterdam. Returning to South Africa in 1996 Sonya continued to work as a nurse, mostly in ICU units, until 2000 when she was able to dedicated herself fully to her art making. Sonya has been subject to solo shows and has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Bulgaria, USA, The Netherlands, Egypt, Italy, Romania, Senegal, Argentina and the UAE, and was selected to represent South Africa at the 2008 DAK'ART Biennale. Her work can be found in the public collections of the Department of Science and Technology (South Africa) and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria (Egypt).
Empathy is central to Sonya's work. Working mostly with sound and movement as ways in which to visualize empathy, it is through automated gestural drawing that she is able to give form to an otherwise invisible occurrence. Sonya places her own corporeality as central to this experience, viewing her body as transducer. She is particularly interested in what she calls the the in-between space of empathy: a volatile space between self and Other which she equates to the unpredictabily of Chaos.
For this reason physics and neuroscience are of keen interest to her and her work can be placed at the intersection of art, science and consciousness.
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