Sara García

Sara García’s (b. 1983) practice produces intimate sensory experiences that reflect on the idea of hospitality and therefore on our relationship with the Other. The Other is the one with whom we collaborate, the guest and the host. It is also about what we cannot dominate, control or name.

She has approached these ideas through food, to question how we interpellate each other when we share the table, the affections that are built and the sense of collectivity that is generated around it. When we eat, we internalize the culture of what we put in our mouths, but it also connects us with all life on the planet. As we share food, we enter into an ecological network in which we feed each other, indigest each other, digest each other and intoxicate each other, together. She also believes that the use of food in artistic practices allows for the generation of a familiar and close response, which enables the emergence of an intuitive system of thought beyond Cartesian logic.

​​Using different approaches, ranging from the use of collected plants, ferments, local clays and other foods, Sara generates encounters with a certain degree of strangeness to reflect on how some gestures pass through our bodies, permeating us from the mouth to the pores of the skin, and how it is possible to reimagine the future from the body and the territory.

Date of residency: 27.02. – 30.04.2025

RESIDENCY PROJECT

Moulding mourning mouths reflects on planetary grief through multi-species feeding, the importance of coexistence and food ethics. The project focuses on grains, bread and the grieving that we face due to the irreversible loss of biodiversity. The research includes different edible offerings that we, the living, make to the dead and the extinct, and what relationships we establish to continue providing them with an existence among us, the living.

EDUCATION

Programa Educativo SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico
SOMA Summer, Mexico City, Mexico
MFA, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
BFA, Universidad de Bellas Artes de Pontevedra, Spain

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019    “El sol y su sombra”, CCEMX, Mexico City, Mexico
2014    “Nil Omni”, CCAI, Gijón, Asturias, Spain
2013    “Stilleben”, Museo Antón, Candás, Asturias, Spain
2013    “It’s unimportant”, Bootsbau, Berlin, Germany
2010    “No queremos que piensen que somos felices”, Sala Borrón, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024    “15’ Kneading”, Snehta, Athens, Greece
2023    “Volver a pasar por el corazón”, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain
2021    “Processi 148”, Spanish Royal Academy, Italy
2021    “Spazi Aperti”, Accademia di Romania en Roma, Italy
2020    “Arredor do Parado”, Sala X, Pontevedra, Spain
2019    “Presencia lúcida”, ESPAC, Mexico City, Mexico
2018    “Premi de Pintura Internacional Guasch Coranty 2018”, Centre d’Art Tecla Sala, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
2018    “XV Mostra de Arte Gas Natural Fenosa”, MAC, A Coruña, Spain
2017    “ArteCareyes Film & Arts”, Jalisco, Mexico
2016    “Una rosa tiene forma de rosa. Oficios e instintos”, Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola, Mexico City
2016    “Primer encuentro internacional de investigación artística policiaca”, Biquini Wax EPS, Mexico City
2016    “La Isla”, Isleta del Lago Mayor del Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico
2015    “Mirar en un espejo. 25 años de arte joven en Asturias”, Sala de exposiciones SabadellHerrero, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
2015    “XVI Premio Joven Artes Plásticas”, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2015    “Premi de Pintura Internacional Guasch Coranty 2015”, Centre d’Art Tecla Sala, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
2014    “Universo vídeo. Geo-políticas”, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain
2014    “I Premio de Arte de Gijón”, CCAI, Gijón, Asturias, Spain

GRANTS & AWARDS

2022    “NUDO/KNOT ’21”, Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia “TRANSVERSAL AESTHETICS / IMMUNITY COMMUNITY”, Idensitat + Centro Huarte, in collaboration with Who Cares?
2021    Spanish Royal Academy in Rome
2018    Shortlisted for “Premi de Pintura Internacional Guasch Coranty 2018”
2018    Shortlisted for “XV Mostra de Arte Gas Natural Fenosa”
2015    Grant of Excellence from the Special Programs of the Government of Mexico for Foreigners, “Estancia para Creación Artística”
Shortlisted for “Premi de Pintura Internacional Guasch Coranty 2015”
2014    Shortlisted for “I Premio de Arte de Gijón”
2014    Shortlisted for “XVI Premio Joven Artes Plásticas”, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

ACTIVATIONS

2023    “fuegos de alto grado”, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain
2022    “fuegos de alto grado”, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Huarte, Navarra, Spain
“fuegos de alto grado”, Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia, León, Spain
2022    “fuegos de alto grado”, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Asturias, Spain
2022    “humos”, CCESantiago “Sobremesa”, Santiago de Chile, Chile
2018    Event with showcase and food in: Colonia Narvarte, Mexico City; A Coruña, Pontevedra, Galicia; Prendes, Asturias, Spain
2016    Event with showcase and food in Soma, Mexico City, Mexico
2015    Event with showcase and food in Miraflores Park, Mexico City, Mexico

RESIDENCIES

2024    Snehta Residency, Athens
2024    MGLC Švicarija, Ljubljana
2022    LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Spain
ESTÉTICAS TRANSVERSALES / INMUNIDAD – COMUNIDAD, Centro Huarte, Navarra, Spain
2022    NUDO/KNOT ’21, Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia, León, Spain
2022    Residency at CCESantiago “Sobremesa”, Santiago de Chile, Chile
2021    Academy of Spain in Rome, Italy
 

All information is accurate as of 27 February 2025.