Her work explores the nature of history—its inevitable unraveling and renewal—using iconoclasm and ruin as entry points to reveal history as a process of continuous transformation. Working across experimental film, textiles, and drawing, her practice is driven by exploration. While moving-image work is central to her approach, cinematic concepts such as duration, montage, and performativity also inform her textiles, objects, and collages.
Sara completed a license degree in visual arts in 2005 at ESAD-CR and later a post graduation in Cinema at FCSH, both in Portugal. In 2015, she concluded the a.pass program (advanced performance and scenography studies) in Belgium. From 2020 to 2023 was awarded a state scholarship (FCT) regarding her PhD investigation at Lusófona University, centered on the film essay as an emerging mode for exhibiting the art object.
Created several art-related projects and events in collaboration with different artists such as the Pizz Buin art collective (ongoing since 2005) and the low-budget film school deus ex-machina (2011) both in Portugal. While living in Norway - and also in collaboration - organized the video seminar The material in the immaterial at BEK (2016), Shot reverse shot and Walla Walla Valhalla (2017) related with art and experimental film at Ramsalt artist run organization, where she developed several projects related to art and experimental film. Lately (in 2022) she co-founded the artist-run association Vénus em fúrias in Lisbon. Shows her artwork regularly both individually and as Pizz Buin art collective.
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