Sarah Bennett
Sarah Bennett’s art practice is predominantly engaged with exploration of discursive sites and contexts, particularly our relationships with institutions and their histories in relation to discourses of power. Her practice is not bound by any particular processes or materials but is contingent upon and open to the contexts with which she works, as are the potential meanings emerging through her work, which she hopes remain fluid and open to active interpretation. Her doctoral practice involved animating the vestiges of repetitious acts, which she performed within architectural spaces, reflecting the way in which individual agency is circumscribed by the controlling mechanisms that exist within institutions, both through their spatial rationale and their regulatory frameworks. She also uses photography as an archiving tool to produce visual essays that reflect on the ways we occupy institutional sites and contexts.
