Sophie Whettnall is a Belgian multidisciplinary artist whose work is strongly influenced by painting, landscape painting in particular, and her sensory experience over time. Through performance, installation, and film, she explores the relationship of the body to its environment. Whettnall's works are silent exercises of contemplation, but they are also often performative in their activation of the viewer. Her main material is light and its elusive, confusing, and seductive effects. With it, she teases our most important sense, our sight, and challenges the idea that seeing is equivalent to understanding. While Sophie Whettnall's works create opposing atmospheres, on the one hand, daydreaming, and on the other, inner research, they are nonetheless complementary. They express a complexity that is not only that of the work but also that of the resonance between the works: the same desire, the same nostalgia for harmony, and coherence which justifies our being in the world. We find this opposition of a complex nature and its opposite, no longer in a universe where magic and reality mingle, but in that of identity experienced as a series of variations on the theme of violence and dependence.