www.sarabasta.it

Sara Basta, lives and works in Rome.
Her works arise from collective research and the creation of small temporary communities among people who share narratives and dialogue through a common making. She collaborates with the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where she teaches History and Models for Art Therapy and with which she has made several workshops involving students and groups of people from different backgrounds. In 2020 she participated in the European project Magic Carpets, invited by the Italian partner Latitudo Art Project with the curation of Benedetta Carpi De Resmini and Giulia Pardini. The project involved for several months a group of women from the trullo (a neighborhood in Rome) in a workshop that ended with the realization of a video and a performance.
With a group of teenagers from a school in Lucca and with the collaboration of Daniele Spanò she realized the project “Le maschere dei vivi per I morti” winner of the call “Della Morte e del Morire” curated by Tenuta dello Scompiglio. In 2019 he is among the thirty artists selected for the MIBAC project Grand Tour D’Italie curated by NOS Visual Art Production.
With the project “Abito lo Spazio” a participated in “School in Tandem,” a project of the educational department of Manifesta12, in Palermo. Together with French artist Sabatina Leccia he took part in the Festival “Arts en Espace Public,” curated by the Art – Exprime Association, developing a participatory project with the inhabitants of an apartment building in the suburbs of Paris.
Major exhibitions include: Festival La fantastica, curated by Benedetta Carpi De Resmini and Giulia Pardini, Polisportiva del Trullo Rome (2020); “Amore e Rivoluzione” curated by Fulvio Chimento, via del Mandrione, Rome (2019); Barba Rosa, with a text by Silvia Litardi, 16Civico, Pescara – Tutorial Sirtaki, a project of “Passo a Due” for the Media Art Festival, Maxxi Rome – Hanji, Viaggio nei Territori della Carta, Korean Cultural Institute, Rome and Naples (2018); D’un Espace à L’Autre, curated by the Association Art Exprime, at Le 87, Paris – Control-Reversal, curated by Marta Silvi and Carla Capodimonti, Festival Dancity, Foligno (2017); La pancia del Monte, curated by Sguardo Contemporaneo, Mausoleo di Monte del Grano, Rome – Abito lo Spazio, a traveling project curated by Simona Merra at smART Polo per l’Arte Spazio Y Roma (2016); BIM! Microfestival di Cultura Infantile, Cesena (2015); Exodus, curated by E. Termine and M Scaringella, Centro Culturale Recoletta, Buenos Aires (2014); Sorry, Kasarminkatu Galery, Helsinki (2012); The 54th Venice Biennale, Academie Pavilion – “Rumores sobre una exposición” espai zer01, Girona, Spain (2011) – The 13th Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean – All day video & sound Art St. Louis, U.S.A. (2008); Rome Film Festival, “Actors Spectators” curated by Bruno di Marino (2007); Progetto Isole, program of residencies and public art projects curated by Barbara D’Ambrosio and Costanza Meli, Palermo (2006). In 2012 with the project “Lingua Mamma,” developed together with Mariana Ferratto and with I bambini della scuola primaria Carlo Pisacane di Rome, she won the “Art, Heritage, Human Rights” award curated by Connecting Cultures, and ISMU Foundation. The project was presented at “Milano e Oltre” at the Milan Triennale, at MAXXI B.A.S.E. in Rome and at The Gallery Apart in Rome.

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