Sonia Braun
Bio
Sonia Braun holds a degree in Psychology, and her artistic practice explores the transformative capacity of art in the experience of trauma.
In 2011, a serious car accident in the United States marked a turning point in her life and work, initiating an investigation into trauma that has evolved over nearly 15 years. Working with images from the event, Braun develops different physical and conceptual processes—such as dematerialization, oxidation, and freezing—to transform and reframe their materiality.
In her most recent research, Braun expands her practice through experimental photographic processes, exploring the transformations, movements, and states of images, and deepening an investigation in which image, matter, and time are in a state of continuous transformation.
Statement
Cápsula
The Cápsula project explores the contemporary use of historical systems of photographic production and reproduction, incorporating current tools such as the generation of digital negatives. Rather than simply recovering historical techniques, it seeks to understand and incorporate their material, technical, and temporal specificities into contemporary artistic practice, investigating how they shape the materiality, singularity, and circulation of the image in the present.
Cápsula brings together works produced through historical photographic processes, such as albumen printing and kallitypes. In 2025, ten artists from Studio Vivian Galban specialized in these historical processes in New York, alongside research conducted in historical archives.
Throughout 2026, this research continued and deepened at Studio Vivian Galban in Buenos Aires, together with specialists, expanding the experimentation around these processes and their possibilities within contemporary photographic practice.
Additional information
Hahnemühle Platinum Rag 300 gsm
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
