Samstag Gallery 2 

South Australian artist Ida Sophia’s installation and 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.  Working between Tarntanya/Adelaide and Berlin, the artist continues to expand 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.

During her 40-day durational performance, Ida Sophia will be joined by co-performers Ashton Malcolm, Sarah Neville, OAKEY and Isobel Stolinski (understudy).

Presented as part of the 2026 SALA Festival