Texts
Statement, 2025
Statement, 2025
Sarah Sandler is a research-based artist, curator, and arts educator. Her work explores the intersections of environmentalism, the humanities, and technology, examining how evolving environmental histories influence our perceptions and interactions with the living planet.
Working across various media and drawing from feminist perspectives, Sandler investigates the ways regional histories and inter-species relationships remain connected to colonial and extractive practices. Her sensorial and intuitive approach challenges hegemonic binaries and fosters alternate ecologies that prioritise harmony, cohabitation, and multiple futures.
By addressing gaps in environmental historiography and gendered archival perspectives, Sandler collaborates with scientific archives and collections to recontextualise their institutional knowledge within the changing global landscape. Resulting in long-term projects centred around geological, vegetal and aquatic ecologies, along with engagement with local communities in France, Australia, and Papua New Guinea.
Sandler's practice invites critical reflection on our deep connection with the living planet, centring the cultivation of renewed sensibilities and generative forms of ecological awareness.
Other texts online
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Text by Xavier Jullien
Boolagoorda, exhibition catalog, Centre d'art Madeleine Lambert, Vénissieux, 2022
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Interview with Filipa Ramos
Boolagoorda, exhibition catalog, Centre d'art Madeleine Lambert, Vénissieux, 2022
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Text by Cameron Allan McKean
Boolagoorda, exhibition catalog, Centre d'art Madeleine Lambert, Vénissieux, 2022
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Text by Clelia Coussonnet
For the exhibition A Hollow Full Thing, Lokal-int, Bienne (Switzerland), 2018
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Text by Raphaëlle Mueller, Katie Lenanton et Sarah Sandler, 2018
For the exhibition Chemical Charm, Silicon IVIalley, Prilly (Switzerland)
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Text by Sarah Sandler
For the installation I Want to Smell the Smoke of your Burnt Grass, 2018