My practice explores social history, labor and the body through an intersectional feminist lens. I look at the infrastructures of human experience, from economic systems to interpersonal dynamics, to understand how ideology is transmitted through intimate experience and expressed through the physical and social body.. I am particularly interested in exploring the chasm between feminist theory and lived experience.
I work conceptually in many mediums, including sculpture, video, image, sound and performance. Informed by my background in Cultural Anthropology, I incorporate historical research and fieldwork into my practice. Drawing on my decade of experience as a photo editor in the magazine industry, I harness signifiers and symbols from popular visual culture to think about how ideas are produced and absorbed through images and text, and to explore what lurks just beneath the surface.
Day job: Director of 601Artspace, a non-commercial exhibition space in the Lower East Side of NYC
Favorite authors: Willa Cather, W. Somerset Maugham, Nella Larsen, Sinclair Lewis, Octavia Butler
Favorite outdated and offensive 80’s movie: Buckaroo Bonzai Across the Eighth Dimension
Favorite new discovery: Lisa Robertson’s “Proverbs of a She-Dandy”
Email me at: shaoul sara (at) gmail.com
Find me on: Instagram