Out of office reply, Ole!

I’m out of office and in a new country, but I’m not on holiday. This is because I’m helping care for my 93 year old mother who needs 24/7 at home, after a sudden acute infection and a two week hospital stay. My sister and I kept a constant vigil at her bedside and her

Not a programme to do your ironing to! #Radio4

If you haven’t heard the programme yet I urge you to give it a listen. An art piece in itself, its a portrait of creative reliance in the face of inherited trauma. This has so much to say to us in present times.

A great deal of the visual output from this project can be found at http://www.soniaboue.co.uk

Strange Transmissions – taking my work to Spain.

Yesterday I cracked the piece for the final leg of my journey in a momentary flash of inspiration on acquiring a new and unexpected object. I can’t wait to share this with listeners to Radio 4. Tune in on the 19th March at 4pm and all will be revealed!

Cultural identity in the face of political suppression – a longer view of Spanish exile: thoughts on #Catalonia.

I can’t separate what I’m gradually learning and absorbing of recent history from this present struggle. Why is so little spoken about the open wounds resulting from a national failure to face up to and negotiate historic memory.

Red lines and the echoes of history; police brutality and the Catalan question.

With my art practice I witness. It’s all I can do.