Samstag Gallery 2 

Ida Sophia’s installation and durational performance Patience and Penitentia explores the painful and damaging experience of relational withdrawal – the silent treatment – in a work that enacts the power dynamics, strategies of control and form of punishment at its core.  This work by Berlin-based South Australian artist expands on her earlier interest in performance and the exploration of extreme psychological states and limits of endurance. Over the span of the exhibition a participatory ritual performed by the artist and a select number of performers will see Sophia incorporate elements of sound, language, movement and gesture to publicly transfigure private suffering through collective release.

Presented as part of the 2026 SALA Festival