Sara Bensaltana (b.1997) is a French-Spanish artist who lives and works in Copenhagen. She graduated with honors from a masters in fine arts at IsdaT (Toulouse) and has also studied at The Fynske Kunstakademi in Denmark. She has exhibited internationally and she was last in residency in Yokohama (JP) and with the National Center of Scientific Research (FR). Her work has been featured in Der Greif, as well as in print, both through institutions and self-published editions.
She explores the mystical qualities of light and nature, the animism of territories, and the materiality of memory. Images are not captured: they are inhabited. Each photograph is a fragment of a vanishing world, developed to reveal what is invisible rather than what is merely seen.
Her work seeks out portals to ancient times, communing with ruins and meditating on what is no longer here, yet still lingers.
In a world oversaturated with images, she creates works where photography digests itself and reemerges transformed.
© Lasse Raatz
2026 I was looking for a ghost and I found its silver bones solo show - Copenhagen (tba, DK)
2025 (to be announced) group exhibition - Tokyo
2025 dans sa moitié, ma moitié je colle Golden Days Festival - Copenhagen, DK
2024 The Silver that Kissed the Sliver that Persists solo show - Dark Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
2024 Rencontres Internationales Traverse Video group exhibition - Ancien Reservoir, Toulouse, FR
2024 Sentier(s) group exhibition - Atélier Gravière, Toulouse, FR
2023 ATHANOR graduation show - IsdaT, Toulouse, FR
2023 Lèche-vitrines group exhibition - Le Nouveau Printemps, Toulouse, FR
2023 23 group exhibition - Lieu Commun Artist-run space, Toulouse, FR
2022 Rundgang group exhibition - Det Fynske Kunstakademi, Odense, DK
2021 Our Wet Memories group exhibition - EXP.21 Photofestival, Barcelona, ES
2019 l’île aux Oiseaux group exhibition - Maison Salvan, Labège, FR
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025 Art-Sciences ANR CONNECTS CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Quai de Savoirs - Toulouse, FR
2024 Koganecho AIR program Koganecho Art Center - Yokohama, JP
RESIDENCIES
PRESS
PUBLICATIONS
RECOGNITIONS
2024 «I was looking for a ghost and I found its silver bones» self-published booklet in 25 copies
2024 «clandestine clepsydra, infernal machine» self-published booklet in 25 copies
2023 «j’en finis jamais avec une photographie.» self-published booklet in 50 copies
2023 «photographie in-vitro, lumière en-fiole.» self-published booklet in 50 copies
2022 «ça monte pas, est-ce que c’était la bonne dose?» self-published booklet in 50 copies
2022 «ça existe, le froid fantôme?» self-published booklet in 50 copies
2025 Der Greif Artist Feature
2025 Trois Points Mag. Vol 10.
2025 « Faire de la photographie vivante - Sara Bensaltana »
2025 Der Greif Guest Room
2024 FASTLIFE photomonitor.uk
2023 MIAM #5, micro-macro p.30-33
Finalist of Yakushima Photo Festival Award - YPF 5th edition, Japan
Selected by Der Greif: «10 emerging artists under 30» portfolio review face-to-face with Jo. Trujillo
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