“Sometimes we are eternal, the first solo exhibition of Saudi- American Sarah Brahim, is conceived as a walk through a galaxy, exploring glimpses of infinity that appear at certain moments of our lives. A dancer by training, Sarah Brahim gives her works the appearance of a pas de deux, an intimate ongoing dialogue between the dancer and her othernesses, where the form of the exchange maintains liquid contours: this “dialogue” is that of her interiority, between a body that transforms and another that transmits, one that abandons resistance for acceptance and another that agrees to incarnate. Perhaps this is how the suture between the finite and the infinite: the artist lets us perceive, understand and observe her become the subject of the different forms of this infinity, an immanent trace in the human finitude. But how can we be transformed in our own gestures, in our own bodies, by invisible forces, without fixing the contours? In her practice, Sarah Brahim is interested in transformation, as well as in the localisation and dislocation of the self through the body, seeking a constant redistribution of the relationship between vertigo and exactitude, which might be one of the central articulations of her work, in the sense that it does not implies an absolute but places events on a spectrum of entry and exit from a state of consciousness.” (Vittoria Matarrese).
Sarah Brahim was born in 1992 in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia). She lives and works between Portland, New York (USA) and Milan (Italy). Trained at the San Francisco Conservatory, the London School of Contemporary Dance and Oregon Health and Science University, her work has been presented at the Islamic Biennial (2023), the Lyon Biennial (2022), the Diriyah Biennial (2022) and at the Noor Festival Contemporary Light Art (2022). In 2023, she was in residence at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center in New York and received the Baroness Nina von Maltzahn Fellowship for the Performing Arts. And nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize 2023 and will exhibit at the Louvre Abu Dhabi from November to February 2024.