SARAH-LOU SASHA MAAREK

Cluster Exhibitor | Cluster Contemporary | 2022

 
 

MADLAB1 | 2021

 

Sarah-Lou Sasha Maarek is a french architect and Art-Maker who explores the myth of transgressive creation through mixed-media installations. Recently graduated from MA Fine Art at Central st Martins, her artistic work can be best described as tools of cathartic encounters.

 
 
 

MADLAB1 | 2021

 

MADLAB2 | 2022

 

MADLAB2 | 2022

 

Using installation as a medium her art creates a fictional narrative bubble that invites the audience to self-reflect on the relationship between a creator and its creature, a metaphoric tale of the hubristic technological revolution of intelligent machines. She explores in her practice two main mediums, image & moving images via CGI and installation sculptures, using a mix of digital, physical and robotic processes and materials. She invites the audience to be swallowed in those narrative installations, like mice in a lab. 

MADLAB2 | 2022

 

Sarah-Lou Sasha Maarek | Self Portrait

 

MADLAB2 | 2022

 
Why I am scared of the troubled waters? By searching for a universal intimate, some cultural truth we could rely on together, fear has been providing a fertile repertoire. But what I am afraid of? I guess something between the known and the unknown, something that we expect but never witness. The monster under our bed. But when sightings become encounters, it stirs this liminal state of blur between fantasy and perception, between fiction and reality. Those are uncanny eruptions which disturb a balanced continuum. I am grasping those anomaly feelings, and hope to translate them.
— SARAH-LOU SASHA MAAREK
 
 

MADLAB1 | 2021

 
 
 

MADLAB2 | Detail | 2022

MADLAB2 | 2022

MADLAB2 | Detail | 2022

 
 
 

MADLAB1| 2021