Sophie Huysentruyt

Your practice moves fluidly between painting and photography, two mediums that historically propose very different relationships to time, truth, and representation. How do you navigate this tension, and in what ways does each medium allow you to approach psychological presence from a distinct angle?
I don't experience them as separate practices. When I paint, I take snapshots as I go — and those images find their way into my photographs. Even at a Roger Ballen masterclass in Venice, where we were taught to construct scenes, I ended up digitally weaving in pieces of my own paintings to finish the work. I simply can't keep them apart.