Sophie Auger is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and visiting professor at the UQAM School of Design.
She works across video installation, hybrid publishing, photography, and circuit bending.
Her research focuses on the beliefs and superstitions generated by digital technologies, and on how their invisible systems shape the ways we see, interpret, and inhabit the world.
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Coded on June 9, 2026.
AFTERIMAGE
In progress.
Afterimage fixes the face of Anne, a neo-spiritual social media influencer, as an afterimage: a persistent visual trace that remains in the perceptual field after exposure to a high-contrast image or a light source, such as a screen.
The project is part of a research-creation practice exploring online self-representation, intimate relationships with screens, and the connections between opacity, belief, and trust. Afterimage seeks to examine the mechanisms of attention and the construction of intimacy within digital environments, the forms of attachment and devotion they foster among their audiences, and their influence on the body.
In progress.
Afterimage fixes the face of Anne, a neo-spiritual social media influencer, as an afterimage: a persistent visual trace that remains in the perceptual field after exposure to a high-contrast image or a light source, such as a screen.
The project is part of a research-creation practice exploring online self-representation, intimate relationships with screens, and the connections between opacity, belief, and trust. Afterimage seeks to examine the mechanisms of attention and the construction of intimacy within digital environments, the forms of attachment and devotion they foster among their audiences, and their influence on the body.
Dye-sublimation print on aluminum, 5 × 9 inches. 