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Sarah Marguier is a multidisciplinary French artist working across photography, movement-based art and design for performing arts, based between the Pacific Northwest (Portland) and France, while creating and presenting internationally.
Her work centers around the expressions of the moving body and the ever-evolving stories and encounters that emerge from it. Polyamorous in art, she works within a hybrid artistic approach, which she describes as an archipelago: a myriad of permeable and creative ecosystems that nourish and inform each medium. She collaborates with movement and the image as a sensitive and sensible material, creating space(s) to dive into the presences around her, exploring the layered and intermediates territories that arise during the creative processes. These zones of permeability, transcendence, and poesy. Particularly, she is interested in the creative process in itself as a commitment of the body and mind and as the center to which she grounds her artistic approach: a practice of listening to the moment(s) in space and time.
From 2011-14, she was a member of the dance company The Instrument (Berlin) by Maya M. Carroll and Roy Carroll and toured nationally and internationally with them.
In 2016, she went on tour with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band for The River Tour ‘16 as part of the production team. They toured all over Europe, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand in a whirlwind of a year.
Sarah works as a commissioned photographer, designer, and collaborator locally and internationally with movement-based artists and she is also at the initiatives of her own projects. She is an ongoing collaborator of the Performing Arts Laboratory Culture Mill based in Saxapahaw, North Carolina and a current member of the non-profit Gather:Make:Shelter in Portland, Oregon.
Since 2024, Sarah is also a trained cheffe and delights in merging performing arts and food, a cross-pollination between two passions that honors “le vivant”.
Her work has been presented, in residency and supported by: Culture Mill (USA), Disjecta (Light Conversation Exhibition), Small Talk Collective (OR), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (TBA Photographer), Caldera Residency CT+CR Colloquium (USA), American Dance Festival (NC), the North Carolina Museum of Art (NC), Cameron Museum (NC), Weatherspoon Arts Museum (NC), VAE Gallery (NC), La Pratique (France), Dock 11 (Berlin), Laborgras (Berlin), Arte Ginestrelle Studio (Italy), among others.
Sarah is the recipient of the CT+CR Program Award and the Arché Award and she has received support from the Regional Culture and Council, Oregon Arts Commission, OFAJ, Portland Emerging Arts Leaders, FACE foundation, to name a few.
