Sophie Ruigrok in conversation with Vanessa Murrell from DATEAGLE ART for Art Fictions podcast.

Vanessa Murrell from DATEAGLE ART sits down with artist Sophie Ruigrok for an episode of Art Fictions podcast, to discuss Sophie’s practice via 'Nobody Belongs Here More Than You' 2007 by Miranda July, published by Canongate Books. Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, it conveys 16 stories of lonely characters desperately trying to make connections. Their means vary from quirky to the absurd and mostly only result in the disillusion of coinciding in the same space.

Sophie and Vanessa talk about escape, clouds, tears, Buddhism, role playing, manifesting reality, body leaking, collapsing flesh, wearing wigs, cold showers, hypersensitive characters, contemporary spiritualism, movie-set extras, expressing the psyche, masks as mediators, disconnected lonely people, swimming on the carpet, beautifully weird realisations about humanity, the loss of fantasy, appropriating from art history, and being allergic to the world.

With many thanks to CCR: Cubitt Community Radio and Art Fictions podcast for making this interview possible.

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