Sara FAVRIAU

Sara Favriau was born in Paris in 1983 and studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, graduating in 2007.

Constantly drawing inspiration from her expeditions into wild territories, she creates installations and films based around sculptures, which are themselves activated by performances. Her approach questions both the work and its ecosystem, its circularity. She establishes a poetic link with nature and the cycle of life, most often using natural materials.

Et si jamais le ciel est un lieu-dit, je le revois près du front (And if ever the sky is a place called, I see it again near the front) is the title she gives to the series from which her pedestal table/end of sofa is taken, designed for ColAAb, a publishing house founded by Aurélie Sarallier. This design piece, presented at Private Choice in 2023, consists of a thick plane tree plank resting on a central leg, a squared and sculpted padouk wood ball. The two wooden structures, hollowed out and sealed with beeswax, accommodate a round raw clay reservoir (empty pockets or pot for flowers or plants). This creation is both a work of art and a piece of furniture, an interior microcosm and its possible miniature garden.

She was the winner of the Prix des Amis du Palais de Tokyo in 2015, which dedicated a personal exhibition to her in 2016. In 2018, she was a guest of honor at the first Bangkok Biennale. She has been an artist in residence in Los Angeles (FLAX) and Alula. She was invited to the Villa Noailles, in Hyères and has exhibited at the Fondation Carmignac.

Presentation taken from the text by Pascale Le Thorel for ColAAb.