Sarah Smolders

Photo credits 1-4: Sarah Smolders, A Space Begins, With Speaking (2024) installation shots Museum M, courtesy the artist and Greg Smolders 5-6: Sarah Smolders, Turning Oneself Into Place (2025) installation shots S.M.AK., courtesy the artist and Greg Smolders, 7-8 Sarah Smolders, Line Drawings of Rooms (Vittorio Veneto), courtesy the artist, 9-10, Sarah Smolders, Concrete, Concrete (2018) installation shots Netwerk Aalst, courtesy the artist and Greg Smolders, 11-12: Sarah Smolders, Reconstructed Wallpaper (2017) courtesy the artist and Greg Smolders

Sarah Smolders (°1988, lives & works in Brussels) handles the conditions in which space is created, viewed and lived. To them, these conditions are material, political and affective, connected to the gazes and the bodies that move around in this space.

Site-specific gestures and painterly actions invite different ways of looking and moving. They are also the building blocks of a spatial vocabulary that Smolders repeatedly revisits and translates in order to read and touch upon new places. In this way, a practice unfolds in which ‘work’ appears both as labour and as form. Starting from painting, Smolders seeks out the company of material, architecture, and language in order to understand space as shaped by time, movement, and memory.

→ www.sarahsmolders.be

Sarah Smolders – Time Set in Stone (2022/2023)

Sarah Smolders – On Language (2022/2024)

Sarah Smolders (2025)

See Also

**Sarah Smolders – On Language (2022/2024)**