On a chilly December afternoon in South London, painter Sofía Serpa Arango let us into her studio and into a world built from Colombian costumbrismo, Austrian folklore, and cowboy myth.
I met Sofia in a moment of gratitude. She'd just sold a painting to a woman in New York who found something in it that reminded her of a trip to Mexico with her dog and having beers.
We started the day with coffee near the canals of northern London, then walked to her studio. Inside was a Mayan hammock in the corner and walls covered in photographs, drawings, and images torn from books. She was in the middle of a large canvas that day, working from a photograph she'd brought back from Mexico just before flying home.
Sofia is always hunting for images that carry Latin America in them, then running them through an Austrian lens. It's how she was raised, Spanish with her family and German with her friends, two languages living in the same head without ever quite merging.
Her paintings live somewhere in between too. Cowboys sinking into melancholy, horses and donkeys in color pushed almost psychedelic, still tethered to something real. Identity, heritage, and the ambiguity between them are what Sofia keeps circling back to. A sense of non-belonging runs through everything she makes, even as she's realizing that Latin America is starting to feel like home. Watch the whole 16 minute long film now to dive deeper into Sofia's world.
In the months since our shoot, Sofia finished two new sculptures, both called Javier. They're available now on our website.
"Javier" an edition of two
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“Javier (ghost)” 2026
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“Javier (petri dish)“ (2026)
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More on Sofia: A multidisciplinary artist based in London working across painting, sculpture, and textiles, building fantastical worlds out of overlapping inheritances: Colombian costumbrismo, Germanic fairy tale, the American West. She holds a first-class honors degree in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is completing a Woodworking Artist Fellowship at City & Guilds.
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