I am Light, 2021, Oil on Canvas 34cm x 28cm
All seing Eye, 2021, Oil on Canvas, 167.8cm x 122.2cm
The Love of Art, 2021, Oil on Canvas, 152.4cm x 152.4cm
Maya, 2021, Oil on Canvas, 167.8cm x 122.2cm
Nuit, 2021, Oil on Canvas, 137.4cm x 91.8cm
Masking, 2021, Oil on Linen, 91.5cm x 91.5cm
Jiwa (Soul)
Solo Exhibition II
In Jiwa, the artist turns inward, tracing the unseen contours of the feminine spirit. This second solo exhibition is an intimate offering, a dialogue between body and soul, between the visible and the invisible. Though her figures appear nude, the work is not about nudity. It is about the unveiling of essence, the soul (jiwa) of being a woman.
Each canvas becomes a mirror, reflecting the sacredness of vulnerability. The naked form is rendered not as an object of desire, but as a vessel of truth, the skin as language, the curve as prayer. Within these quiet spaces, Sofia explores the power that arises when a woman returns to herself, to the body that carries her, to the soul that speaks without words.
The series traverses between sensuality and silence, strength and surrender. The figures exist in a realm between waking and dreaming, where emotion and form dissolve into colour, texture, and breath. They are neither confined by gaze nor bound by expectation. They exist as they are unguarded, whole, alive.
Jiwa questions how the female soul can inhabit the body without apology, how it can breathe freely after centuries of restraint, how it can speak through stillness. Sofia’s women do not perform, they simply are. They embody a kind of spiritual nakedness, a stripping away of pretense, ego, and fear.
In her brushstrokes lies an act of remembrance that to be a woman is to hold both the storm and the still water. The soul of womanhood is not delicate, it is resilient, mysterious, and endlessly reborn. Jiwa is an ode to that resilience.
As each painting unfolds, we are invited to see beyond flesh, to witness the energy that animates it, the light that survives even after the body fades. Jiwa is not only a portrait of women, it is a meditation on life itself, on how the soul, in all its quiet strength, continues to rise, undressed yet divine.