Performer

Ida Sophia: Patience and Penitentia

40 day durational performance

Accompanied by: Ashton Malcolm, Sarah Neville, OAKEY and Isobel Stolinski

7 hours per day, June 25 to August 22nd, 2026

Samstag Museum Of Art, Adelaide

Ida Sophia’s installation and durational performance Patience and Penitentia explores the painful and damaging experience of relational withdrawal—the silent treatment—in a work that enacts the power dynamics, strategies of control and form of punishment at its core. Over the span of the exhibition, a participatory ritual performed by the artist and a select number of performers will see Sophia incorporate elements of sound, language, movement and gesture to publicly transfigure private suffering through collective release.