Sara Suárez

Sara Suárez is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer, working in experimental film, sound, and social practices. She is interested in sensory and spatial perception, dreaming and consciousness, shared spaces, landscape, and in co-creative and collective processes.

In Day/Dream, Suarez collaborated with architect Regina Teng, combining ongoing experiments in dream-sharing and optical logic to reflect on the radical potentials of seemingly ephemeral phenomena. While dreaming may seem immaterial, she sees it as a quietly essential refuge: a strange and uncharted terrain that can be actively shared, shaped, and reclaimed, and where new modes of relation and care can be imagined. In a series of dream-sharing sessions, we explored what is created when these surreal, internal experiences are opened to others, creating a way to connect and listen with others. In water, Suarez found an image to make sense of these dynamics—water is interwoven with dreams in their fluid, oceanic movement and in its powerful appearances. To wake is for a wave to crash, dispersing and drawing back from the shore. At the same time, water is a material reality, a deeply essential resource we must learn to respect and share.

In Oversight, working from Mal Young’s poem, Suarez was drawn to the word’s double meanings, referring to careful supervision and surveillance and to what one has missed or overlooked. Her own, merely individual sight is overpowered by satellite photography's sheer visual force and utility. Yet, Suarez finds unquantifiable value in minor moments of light and life she can capture from the ground. Visually, she was interested in the illusions of power, autonomy, and control present in different forms of observation.