Sara Shaoul

Sara Shaoul explores social history, labor and the body through an intersectional feminist lens. Working conceptually in sculpture, video, image, and sound she looks at the various infrastructures of human experience, from economic systems to interpersonal dynamics, to understand how ideology is transmitted through intimate connections. Recents projects include a video installation about face yoga and a soft sculpture and sound project about economic imperialism, betrayal and bananas.

My practice explores social history, labor and the body through an intersectional feminist lens. I look at the infrastructures of human experience, from economic systems to interpersonal dynamics, to understand how ideology is transmitted through intimate experience and expressed through the physical and social body. I work conceptually in many mediums, including sculpture, video, image, sound and performance. Informed by my background in Cultural Anthropology, I incorporate historical research and fieldwork into my practice. Drawing on my decade of experience as a photo editor in the magazine industry, I harness signifiers and symbols from popular visual culture to think about how ideas are produced and absorbed through images and text.