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Sophie Cundale

sophie cundale

is a multidisciplinary artist based in London currently writing her first novel, Half Life, a science fiction about a woman who falls in love with nuclear waste. Previous work has been presented by Somerset House, Castello Di Rivoli, Serpentine Galleries and her first major solo show opened at South London Gallery in 2020.

half life (2025)

Half Life is an erotic science fiction novel centred on Pearl, a scientist who develops an infatuation with radioactive waste. Cundale intertwines nuclear matter with desire, self-poisoning, and addiction, presenting toxic substances as objects of both fear and attraction. The narrative explores how intimacy with nuclear energy destabilises distinctions between eros and contamination. By linking sensual appetites to radioactive material, Half Life stages a reference for human entanglement with destructive technologies. Desire becomes inseparable from toxicity, reflecting on the paradoxical pull of substances that can both allure and annihilate.

Half Life, 2025, sound installation of chapters 1 - 4, read by Bryony Miller.

LOCATION: Direkcija rudnika (former administration building of the Raša Mine)

김아영 Ayoung KIM,

Alice Bucknell ,

Živa Božičnik Rebec,

Gerard Ortín Castellví,

Maks Bricelj and Ema Maznik Antić,

Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler,

Lawrence Lek,

Nestor Siré,

Suzanne Treister,

Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich,

刘窗 Chuang LIU,

Marina Xenofontos,

Laibach Kunst,

Dragan Živadinov and Dunja Zupančič,

Tanit Plana,

Heba Y. Amin,

업체 eobchae,

Andrej Beštak and Anja Leko,

Aleksandra Domanović,

Abu Bakarr Mansaray,

Selena Savić and Gordan Savičić,

Sandro Ðukić,

!Mediengruppe Bitnik,