Let me present to you Sarah Rose Guitian, one of the most exciting artists I have worked with!
Raised in Spain and having moved to The Netherlands many years ago, the Rotterdam-based interdisciplinary artist Sarah Rose Guitian began exploring the differences and similarities between her two cultural backgrounds. Observing people’s behaviour and the often overlooked traces they leave behind served as an exercise for self-reflection and familiarisation, and became a pillar of her artistic practice.
Working with various mediums including photography, video, text, sound, sculpture and performance, Sarah's intention is to turn the viewer’s gaze back to the ordinary. Her practice is based on observing and recontextualising unnoticed patterns and traces of the everyday. By detaching these from their original surroundings and placing them into the center of attention, new meanings are triggered through the viewer’s astonishment and associations. The artist believes that these overlooked habits and details, so present and yet unnoticed, can serve as a way to grasp the changes that surround us.
Playing with the boundary between art and the everyday is also relevant in the ways she displays her work. Sarah intends to reach not only those frequently visiting exhibition spaces, but also those just passing by the window of a gallery or taking their keychain out of their pockets.
The Right Orange, a series reconstructing orange leftovers, for example, was shown at The Tiny Art Gallery (The Hague) and at Raam Maar (Rotterdam), both window galleries accessible to passersby. Currently she is working on her project An Unforeseen Encounter, examining the hierarchy of human-object relationships, due to be presented in 2022.
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