Sara Favriau is first and foremost a sculptor: a hut, a pirogue, a bow, a tree... are elements that form part of her formal and conceptual vocabulary, and carry their own dramaturgy.

The artist questions both the work and its ecosystem, its circularity like a pirogue-tree that crosses a sea to find a forest. She summons up forms, symbols and processes of a popular nature and transposes them. Wood is one of her favorite materials, whether considered on a macro or micro scale. 

Sara Favriau graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris (atelier Penone) in 2007. She is represented by Galerie Maubert, where she is currently presenting the exhibition L'aveu musclé.

She will be in conversation with Audrey Illouz

Winner of the Prix des Amis du Palais de Tokyo 2015, Sara Favriau presented the exhibition La redite en somme, ne s'amuse pas de sa répétition singulière there in 2016. In 2017, she exhibited at the Château de Chaumont, Independent Brussels and completed a residency in partnership with the Ministry of Culture and the CNEAI. In 2018, she takes part in the first Bangkok Beyond Bliss Biennale as guest of honor. In 2019, she takes part in the French Los Angeles Exchange (FLAX) residency and participates in the first Rabat Biennale. In 2020, she begins a long-term collaboration with INRAe and biologists from the Mediterranean Forest Unit. She is invited to Villa Noailles for the Festival International de la Mode, where she exhibits an installation of sculpted trees from a plot of forest near Marseille studied by INRAe . In 2021, a pirogue-tree will cross the Mediterranean Sea from the Pesquiers salt marshes in Hyères to the Fondation Carmignac on the island of Porquerolles. In 2021/2022, she will take up a residency at the Royal Commission RCU and French Agency Afalula, operated by Manifesto, in AlUla, Saudi Arabia.

Her work can be found in numerous public collections: FMAC (collection de la ville de Paris), FDAC Essonne, FRAC Normandie Caen, FRAC Centre, MAC VAL (permanent installation), BAB (Bangkok Art Biennale).

Photo credit: © Anaïs Veignant