Sarah D’Souza
Effort, endings and what remains when things are over
Sarah D’Souza is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist interested in the process of disposal, decommissioning and deletion. Using a range of media including film, drawing, assemblage, photography and performance, her work often focuses on what is overlooked, unnoticed or undervalued and drawn from close observation of mundane, transitory or institutional spaces like offices, care homes, supermarkets and hotels.
Her work is particularly influenced by Mierle Laderman-Ukeles ‘Maintenance Art’, Hans Haacke, aesthetics of administration and Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document, her work taking the form of spreadsheets, office notices, receipts and project management reports.
Her materials are often utilitarian, functional objects – blank, impersonal – like biros, security envelopes, copier paper and disposable gloves. Repetition, accumulation, collection and patination are core to her process – a slow reveal, a recovered trace, a transformation, a value alchemy performed by persistence.
Sarah is also founder member of @FifthFloorArt a group of conceptual artists interested in the potential for resistance within the system.
