Born in 1996 in New-York, Anne Sarah Sanchez lives in Rouen, France. She graduated from the Rouen Fine Art School in 2019 and has participated since in several residencies (L’H du Siège, Valenciennes, L’Usine Utopik, Tessy-Bocage) and group shows (Le Shed – centre d’art contemporain en Normandie).
“Large white volumes draw shapes in space, some recognizable, others enigmatic. Yet all are drawn from reality”. A reality that Anne Sarah Sanchez never ceases to observe, the better to deconstruct and reconstruct it anew[…]. From architecture to furniture to objects, she sets out to replicate certain elements using basic building materials – such as plaster, plasterboard, wood, lime or polystyrene – which she chooses to leave in their raw state.
During her residency at Usine Utopik, the artist took a particular interest in the symbolic elements of vernacular domestic architecture in Normandy. Under her hands, these are transformed into sculptures whose features take on the appearance of surreal, ghostly scenery, succeeding in disturbing the automatism of our perceptual reflexes. Anne Sarah Sanchez’s works offer the punctuation of an immobile journey. A journey that evokes both the present and the immediate,
as well as the absent, vanished and evanescent.”
Licia Demuro independent curator and art critic, in charge of production at Palais de Tokyo (2022)