Sarah D’Souza


Work about work

Sarah D’Souza is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist whose practice investigates working life, particularly institutional architecture, bureaucratic language, and histories of effort. Drawing on a career in public sector management, her work describes the human experience within the ‘operating system’ through contemporary drawing, assemblage, digital art, video, photography, performance and site-specific interventions.

Repetition and accumulation are core to her process – slowly revealing the effort involved in changing a hotel pillowcase through its 100-use life span (Grey Area), retracing a last work notebook onto one page (Pen Pusher), collecting the verbs of erasure from office notices (Notice Period) and reconstituting shopping baskets from discarded till receipts (Self-Scan).

Sarah is also a founding member of @FifthFloorArt a group of conceptual artists

Grey Area by Sarah D’Souza, Pillowcase, pillow, charcoal
Grey Area
Pillowcase, pillow, charcoal
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Pen Pusher by Sarah D’Souza, A3 copier paper, blue carbon paper
Pen Pusher
A3 copier paper, blue carbon paper
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Self-Scan by Sarah D’Souza, 20 photographs of found self-scan till receipts and 20 photographs of shopping baskets recreated from them
Self-Scan
20 photographs of found self-scan till receipts and 20 photographs of shopping baskets recreated from them
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Notice Period by Sarah D’Souza, Film Still
Notice Period
Film Still
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Care Worn (Cross) by Sarah D’Souza, Vinyl glove, acrylic paint
Care Worn (Cross)
Vinyl glove, acrylic paint
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Care Worn (Pass) by Sarah D’Souza, Vinyl glove, chrysanthemum petals
Care Worn (Pass)
Vinyl glove, chrysanthemum petals
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Care Worn (Give) by Sarah D’Souza, Vinyl glove, chocolates
Care Worn (Give)
Vinyl glove, chocolates
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