Sara Favriau

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

Drawing constant inspiration from her expeditions into the wilderness, she creates installations and films based around sculptures, 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, often using natural materials.

Et si jamais le ciel est un lieu-dit, je le revois près du front is the title she gives to the series from which her guéridon/bout de canapé is taken, designed for ColAAb, the publishing house founded by Aurélie Sarallier. This design piece, presented at Private Choice in 2023, consists of a thick plane-wood plank resting on a central foot, a squared and carved padouk log. The two wooden structures, hollowed out and sealed with beeswax, house a round raw-earth reservoir (a pocket 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 won the Prix des Amis du Palais de Tokyo in 2015, which devoted a solo exhibition to her in 2016. In 2018, she was guest of honor at the first Bangkok Biennale. She has been artist-in-residence in Los Angeles (FLAX) and Alula. She has been invited to the Villa Noailles in Hyères and has exhibited at the Fondation Carmignac.

Presentation based on a text by Pascale Le Thorel for ColAAb.