Sara Sadik Performance
Le coeur qui brûle, sentiments glacés, 2023
Sara Sadik
with Émile–Samory Fofana
Wednesday 26, Thursday 27 and Friday 28 April 2023
Loggia of Villa Medici
8pm15
Duration: 25 minutes
Reservation required
Born of a wide collaboration between public and private institutions, Sara Sadik’s exhibition will then move to the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici, for this performance – with a second chapter of the exhibition – at the Kunsthalle Lissabon at the end of June 2023.
Conceived as an extension of the artist’s solo exhibition, Xenon Palace: Crystal Zastruga, currently on view at Basement Roma, Le cœur qui brûle, sentiments glacés evokes a path of exploration and discovery. Zetrei, the central character played by Émile-Samory Fofana, is a lone wolf who sets out to discover himself, in the snowy and suspended landscape of a video game, echoing the artist’s latest film. He translates his thoughts, feelings and memories into a journey of affirmation, identity and memory. Sara Sadik’s project will then be presented at Kunsthalle Lissabon at the end of June.
Sara Sadik (b. 1994) is an artist who lives and works in Marseille, France. Halfway between fiction and documentary, her video and performance work, inspired by video games, science fiction and French rap, features characters facing challenges and seeking moral and physical transformation through initiation stories. Sara Sadik’s work has been exhibited at Basement Roma and MACRO Museum, Roma; Matadero, Madrid; Sadie Coles HQ, London; Gladstone Gallery, New York; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; Lyon Biennale; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
In partnership with:
Basement Roma
Xenon Palace: Crystal Zastruga
until 21 April 2023
Kunsthalle Lissabon
Xenon Palace: Episode 02
28 June – 2 September 2023