Sarah Chabrier

Sarah Chabrier (1990) is an artist-researcher who most often works as part of a collective. Her practice is built through encounters and the sharing of stories, experiences, know-how and desires. Her research revolves around collective art practices, the shared experience and co-creation. Co-founder of the Gufo collective, she experiments and develops her research around the banquet in a variety of forms, temporalities and invitations. With Gufo, they place the necessary act of eating at the heart of living, creating and celebrating. It’s a question of questioning their conditions as artists, as workers in the field of art and, more broadly, as workers.

Her residency project at Villa Medici is devoted to research and experimentation with banquets made from leftovers. More specifically, research time will focus on Cucina Povera, a so-called poor cuisine, born of peasant traditions, whose recipes are composed of accessible ingredients, already there, depending on where you are. It’s a cuisine made from little, cobbled-together, resourceful and uncodified, to feed hungry mouths and bellies. This research will intersect several lines of thought around the banquet, what’s left over and what’s left to us, commensality, and bodies that are hungry, in other words, bodies that resist.