Saturday 2nd of December 2023, “Becoming” was inaugurated: it was an art exhibition about travel illustration and photography; the first one where I presented my artist sketchbook masterpieces.

Finally, it concluded last Monday, the 22nd of January 2024. Even so, the travel continues through all the people who took part in the art exhibition and interacted with its artworks.

I’ll tell you how did it work. Let’s see together!

First of all, when we start traveling, we always depart from a starting point. Ours was the entrance of the República de Las Letras: here, in one of the most well-known libraries of Córdova – artistically and culturally, we started to put ourselves in traveler’s shoes and get in touch with the “Becoming” project.

So, imagine walking around the art exhibition as if you were in a Medina and finding an unbelievable surprise: a pen, some Post-its, and a question.

In this way, many were the people who left their thoughts in a note, their mark on the art exhibition; the same thing happens when we travel and get enriched by meeting others.

You can take part as well just by answering the following questions:

Where would you like to travel?

What would you say to someone who’s departing for a travel? Or who doesn’t know whether to travel or not?

What was your favorite travel?

Leave a comment below!

Here’s the official invitation for the opening, the exhibition is remaining the whole month.

About the exhibition

“Becoming” is an illustration and photography exhibition. I realized all Its artworks during my first travel to Morocco. That travel has somehow changed me in a way I can’t describe through words, but through art, through my travel sketchbook.

“Becoming”. I chose this word because it talks about movement.

We all come from a placeーour roots, our past, we pass through anotherーour present, and we leaveーour future.

Inside of this movement, that’s life, we can give ourselves the great opportunity of traveling; which permits us to know ourselves and the other. When I speak of the other, I mean someone different from us, who’s sharing this earth and living this epoch, but who’s doing it through a different filter, a different way of living. Our environment affects our convictions, our experience shapes our idea of freedom or possibility. Thus, a travel can not only bring us out of our reality, but give us the chance to change, too; as long as we are willing to open our eyes and question ourselves.

With this exhibition, for the first time, I’m sharing publicly my travel sketchbook, my way of filtering the reality and traveling. With this exhibition, “Becoming”, I close this year that started in Morocco and follows with art.

About me

I’m Sofia, in art Syamhope. I’m a traveler creative and a professional artist. I work with several styles and techniques related to the illustration, painting and comic field. I develop artistic projects focusing on the social-cultural aspects thanks to my formation and interest in the human sciences and linguistic mediation.