Lorraine de Sagazan

Alongside her training as an actress, Lorraine de Sagazan studied philosophy. In order to train as a director, she left for Berlin in 2014 to assist Thomas Ostermeier. On her return, she worked on adaptations of repertory texts: Lars Noren’s Demons, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Anton Chekhov’s L’Absence de père, presented at the Nuits de Fourvière, Centquatre and MC93, among others.

In 2020, she began a new cycle of work questioning how fiction can respond to reality. This research gave rise to her first two shows, La Vie invisible and Un sacre, created at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and at the Théâtre Gérard Philipe in Saint-Denis, where she is associate artist. Her multi-faceted projects, at the crossroads of performance, the performing arts and the visual arts, have been exported both abroad and throughout France.

Her research project at Villa Médicis focuses on contemporary justice, and more specifically on little-known and marginal alternatives such as restorative justice. As usual, it is written in immersion, and gives rise to a performance-show that questions the way in which art can be part of a restorative approach by inventing a ritual of justice through theater. The project unfolds in a constellation of proposals, including a film and installations in the public space in collaboration with other Villa Medici artists, with the ambition of multiplying the creation of utopian and imaginary legal spaces with the original force of action.