Sarah Brahim
- Fellow 2025
- visual and performance artist based between Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Milan (Italy) and New York City (USA)
- cooperating partner: Iréne Hultman (New York City, USA)
Sarah Brahim is a visual and performance artist. Trained as a professional performer, teacher, and choreographer. Her research-based practice began while studying medicine at university. Sarah examines how gestures of the body create a language that can be used to voice grief, metamorphosis, the unseen form, and our relationship to the natural world. Transformation through movement is reflected in her works that explore questions of embodiment and cycles of connection.
During the fellowship, Sarah will collaborate with New York based Iréne Hultman - choreographer, dancer, and educator at Yale University in dance and performance. Through depth of research and dialogue with Hultman, Sarah will explore the development of new languages through gesture and scale. Moving between experiential practice and archives this research seeks new forms of movement and dance aiding in communicating with the present. The practice will be rooted in the body, exploring transformation, spirituality, and time.
"Sarah Brahim is an artist whose work reminds us of the agency and power of the female body. Gestural, subtle, yet powerful, Sarah creates universes of image that urge us to think of touch, intimacy, loss, and the spiritual. Her work forges space for the dancing body in Visual art spaces, asking us to re-think presence and absence within frameworks of representation.
During the fellowship, Sarah will collaborate with Iréne Hultman - a renowned choreographer, performer, and educator whose long-standing engagement with archives, rehearsal processes, and gestural vocabularies resonates strongly with Sarah's own interests. Together they will delve into questions of embodiment, transformation, and speculative theory. This fellowship will prioritise the urgent need for new discourse, not only practice."
- From the Jury Statement