Programming
Sarah Naomi Zakaib
Héritage
For her project at DARE-DARE, Sarah Naomi Zakaib produced replicas of her grandmother's ring, with the aim of passing them on to others in the form of individual performance-meetings.
Public sharing on March 30, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. at 2515 Delisle St., local 309.
The object at the center of this project is a very old ring that was given to her by her grandmother on my sixteenth birthday. This ring is one of the only things to have survived WW2 and her Italian family’s immigration to North America and is a representation of a specific family story, intergenerational bonds between members of her family, a common origin, a period of upheaval due to violent conflict, and a nostalgic geographic place.
Sarah Zakaib
Sarah Naomi Zakaib is a multidisciplinary visual artist that works in sculpture, drawing, painting, etching, sound art and performance. She works and lives between Montreal, Quebec and Rome, Italy. She completed a BFA at Concordia University in 2009. A Montrealer with Italian and Lebanese roots, she has participated in a number of groups and solo exhibitions, as well as performance art events, and has coordinated a variety of shows and artistic events. Her practice is rooted in an exploration of the lived experience of the body and its relation to the outside world. Recurring questions are linked to the lived experience of the artist and are often taken directly from her personal life. For the last four years, she has been working from stories that are given to her by others, responding to the story with a work of art.