Sarah Haddou (b. 1980) is a French-Algerian multidisciplinary artist whose passion and focus is on performance art and installations. Her practice also extends to other mediums such as painting, photography and sculpture. 

​She studied philosophy at La Sorbonne University in Paris, and Fine Arts at Altos de Chavon, The school of design, affiliated to Parsons where she has been introduced to performance art through a workshop with the Guatemalan artist Regina Jose Galindo, and David Karmadavis. She graduated with honors and received a merit scholarship to complete her studies in Parsons | The new school (New York).

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Haddou’s multi-disciplinary practice is informed by her multicultural experience, what it means to become part of another society and how those societies can accept or reject the others. She deconstructs the socio-cultural aspects that determine our relation to one another and what generate the mechanisms of défense which perpetuate the sense of division. Catalyzed by her immersion in several countries, her inspirations and queries on identity, borders, walls and notions of belonging, have become the genesis of her works.

Based on memory and emotions, involving the conscious and the subconscious, Sarah Haddou also addresses on universal myths, the sacred realm, and the female condition.

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Presently, Haddou is curating the art collection of the Abdullah Al Dabbagh Foundation, a future Museum in Saudi Arabia, planning to open in 2022. ​

She lives and works between Lisbon, Paris and Jeddah. 

 

Curriculum vitae

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2020       Curator at the Abdallah Al-Dabbagh Foundation (Saudi Arabia). 

2019.      Curator of "Little Art for a Great Cause", exhibition and auction (Saudi Arabia). 

2019       Video performance with Fermin Ceballo Ä la distancia del sol" (Bani) 

2018       Selected by the Rotary club international, one month residency (Paris-Leeuwarden) 

2017       Group show "Last one out turn of the light", Galerie L'inlassable (Paris)

2017       Performance "Chiasmus", Vilnius Art Fair (Lithuania)

2017       Residency Cité des Arts Internationale (Paris) 

2017       Performance "Traînée", Open Yard group show at Cité des Arts Internationale (Paris)

2017       Group collaboration with artists: Ahmet Ogut and Victor Mutelekesha, for The NSK State Pavilion

               at 57th Biennale di Venezia. 

2017       Video performance ‘Claustration’, church Saint-Gervais (Paris)  

2016       Performance "the knight", Fuxia (Paris) 

2016       Performance "The pawn" Fiac Art Fair (Paris)

2016       Residency Cité des Arts Internationale invited by Ifaa Contemporary (Paris)

2016       Group show, Ifaa contemporary at Vilnius Art Fair (Vilnius)

2016       Group show, Ifaa contemporary at cité des Arts (Paris)

2016       Two months residency Thamgidi Foundation (Netherland)

2016       Group show, Casa Quien gallery, Mad - ARCO ART FAIR (Madrid)

2015       Group show "X", Casa Quien Gallery (Santo Domingo)

2015       Group show "Dialogando con Papo", Museo Fernando Peña Defillo (Santo Domingo)

2015       Group show "La", Galería Casa Quien (Santo Domingo)

2015       Festival "INDEPENDENCE-DOM", Centro Cultural de España (Santo Domingo)                             

2014       Festival performance "INDEX" (Miami-Puerto Rico-Santo Domingo)

2014       Group show "Mujeres sin piel", Centro de la imagen (Santo Domingo)

2013       Group show ‘Victima o Verdugo” (Santo Domingo)                                                                      

2013       Group show during "La 27 Biennal" (Santo Domingo)

2013       Performance Exposed commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art (Santo Domingo)

2013       Solo show "Emergent Conscience", Museum of Modern Art (Santo Domingo)

2012       Group show "Otro lenguaje", El encuentro artesanal (Santo Domingo)

2012       Video performance "Hollow body", sponsored Ban Reserva (Santo Domingo)

2012       Group show, Galería Altos de Chavón (La Romana)

2012       Group show, Casa Chavón (Santo Domingo)

2011       Performance Mi casa es Aqui (La Romana)

2011       Performance workshop with Regina Jose Galindo and Karmadavis (La Romana)