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 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.
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Favorite outdated and offensive 80’s movie: Buckaroo Bonzai Across the Eighth Dimension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