Sara Bensaltana (b.1997) is a French-Spanish artist who lives and works between Toulouse and Tokyo. She graduated with honors from a bachelor and then a master in fine arts at the Institut Supérieur des Arts et du Design de Toulouse in June 2023. She has also studied at The Fynske Kunstakademi in Denmark.
With a scientific background prior to her art education, she integrates her passion for science into her approach of photography, chemistry, and her exploration of sensitive surfaces.
The essence of her practice lies in the pursuit of light and pushing back the boundaries of the photographic medium, seeking to reveal the boundary that separates de visible from the invisible.
EXHIBITIONS
Rencontres Internationales Traverse Video Group Exhibition; Mars 2024
Sentier(s) Group Exhibition; Atelier Gravière, Toulouse Mars 2024
ATHANOR (DNSEP) Solo Show IsdaT, Toulouse; June 2023
Lèche-vitrines Group Exhibition,
Le Nouveau Printemps, Toulouse; June-July 2023
23 Group Exhibition, Lieu Commun Artist-run space, Toulouse; April 2023
FASTLIFE Brasserie Levant x Collectif Cadence, Toulouse; October 2022
Nocturne Group Exhibition, Vivres de l’Art, Bordeaux; January 2022
Rundgang Group Exhibition, Det Fynske Kunstakademi, Odense (DK); January 2022
Our Wet Memories Group Exhibition EXP.21 Photofestival, Barcelona; July 2021
L’île aux Oiseaux Group Exhibition, Maison Salvan, Labège; December 2019
UPCOMING
Koganecho Artist in Residency program Yokohama, Japan; September 2024
The Silver that Kissed the Sliver that Persists Solo Show, Dark Gallery Copenhagen; December 2024
PUBLICATIONS
« FASTLIFE » (2024) Featured commission by Photomonitor.co.uk
MIAM #5, micro-macro (2023) p.30-33
« si un arbre tombe dans la forêt sans personne aux alentours pour l’entendre, fait-il du bruit? »
(2023) Self-published booklet in 50 copies.
« j’en finis jamais avec une photographie. » (2023) Self-published booklet in 50 copies.
« photographie in-vitro, lumière en-fiole. » (2023) Self-published booklet in 50 copies.
« soleil, crayon de la nature. hélium néon, plume invisible. »
(2023) Self-published booklet in 50 copies.
FAST LIFE. (2022) Self-published photo-book in 20 copies.
« ça monte pas, est-ce que c’était la bonne dose? » (2022) Self-published booklet in 50 copies.
« ça existe, le froid fantôme? » (2021) Self-published booklet in 50 copies.
ATHANOR (2022) master thesis, book set in 10 copies.