Sara Deraedt
Born in 1984 in Asse, Belgique
Sara Deraedt’s work is silent. Combining the worlds of photography, drawing, installation, and conceptual art, it is characterised by the sparseness of the language and discourse associated with it. From photographs of buildings to everyday objects, the artist appropriates the conventions of the readymade and pop art, creating living, evolving archives. The absence of captions, publications, or text maintains her work in a speculative state, conducive to astonishment and objective observation. Through the use of ordinary objects or more abstract installations, Sara Deraedt seeks to produce unqualifiable knowledge in order to create a more intimate and subjective relationship with her work. The artist explains: “The reason for my silence in the company of my work—for example, the absence of printed texts in my exhibitions—is not to be mysterious or to leave the public with a need for knowledge, or to create something opaque. It’s exactly the opposite.”
Born in 1994 in Asse (Belgium), Sara Deraedt is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (Austria). She lives and works in Brussels.
