Saudi Arabia. 2019
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. There, she has been introduced to performance art through a workshop with the world-renowned 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).
She lives and works between Paris, Lisbon and Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). Actually curating a new museum and national Art Project in Jeddah.
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 adresses on universal myths, the sacred realm, and the female condition.
Curriculum vitae
2020 Curator for the Al Dabbagh group (Saudi Arabia).
2019 Curator for the Exhibition and Auction: Little Art for A Great Cause (Jeddah).
Personal Art teacher of His Highness' son (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)