23 Jan Sara Vaz
Residency Programme: June 2017
Taking as a reference the cinematographic concept of montage, as shown in the dialogues of the filmmakers J.L Godard y M. Duras, Sara wonders about the different ways of constructing a narrative, and about the possible bifurcations of a story at its beginning.
To Godard, the text, the script, all oppresses the process. For Duras, the text opens it. “You find yourself confronted by the invisible” says Godard expressing the uncertainty of the blank page, of its beginnings and its endless possibilities.
Sara’s work translates these questions into her own field of research: the body and its performativity. The artist builds up a piece in which the actions and the narrative happen in parallel layers, randomly overlapping to create different meanings.
Building multiple diffused and atmospheric characters, Sara embodies a story, her story, or the story of the audience, but always a story told in fragmented pieces.
The staging is a series of technical elements in rest, waiting to be actioned. It is versatile and reconfigurable, letting the technology perform as an element that defines the action, the movements, and therefore, the story itself. Sara’s artwork is in a process continuous writing.
