Sadik
Studio:
1 place de Lorette
Fr-13002 Marseille
BIOGRAPHY
Sara Sadik’s work is anchored in what sheidentifies as beurcore culture, that of the youthof working-class neighbourhoods originatingfrom the Maghreb diaspora. Graduated from Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux in 2018, Sara Sadik’s work hasbeen presented in various group exhibitions, including 221 A (Vancouver, 2017), KarmaInternational (Zurich, 2017), “Waiting for Omar Gatlato”, Wallach Gallery – University of Columbia (New York, 2019), “Désolé”, Galerie Edouard Manet (Genevilliers, 2020) and “Intérieur, pluie”, Galerie Crèvecoeur (Paris, 2020). Sara Sadik has presented performances at the Festival Do Disturb – Triangle – Astérides program (Paris, 2019) and at the Festival Parallèle (Marseille, 2020).
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Born in 1994 in Bordeaux, France.
Sara Sadik describes her work as «Beurcore»: the essence of North African-descended youth living in French suburbs culture. Based on semiological and sociological analyses of the « beurness », Sara Sadik brings many alter-egos which she plays in short-video using chromakey, 3D modulation and other CGI post-production techniques and linked them with sculptural elements via installation.
She reengages visual aesthetics, economic systems and languages used and/or created by this community, in order to create fictional and surreal situations which take place either in the present or in the near future.
By shifting many codes, Sara Sadik tries to create a composite vision which tends to singled out from what can be seen on mass-media and produces future possibilities.
In 2016, Sara Sadik created Melissa Lacoste, a french R’n’B singer whose lyrics are an autotuned anthem to Marseille, the sprawling coastal city from South of France. In December, 2016, she released her first album « Gadji en Or», and performed it during the «Gadji en Or European Tour» in clubs, festivals and exhibition openings in Paris, Berlin, Geneva, Brussels and Rotterdam.