Things I did that nobody noticed (but that changed everything), 2018, Detail, 10th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, courtesy Sara Haq, photo: Timo Ohler
Sara Haq
“My practice is a living, breathing constantly evolving process that consciously seeks to provoke and inspire natural evolution in people, institutions and environments”
– SARA HAQ
Sara (b. 1976, London, UK) is an artist, gardener, photographer, writer, creative facilitator, and sacred medicine practitioner living in South London with cat. Her work is multi and interdisciplinary in approach. The content is always reflective of personal experience and processes which often explore intercultural relationships and ecologies, power dynamics, transformation and interactions between art, nature and social change. Inviting liberatory evolution through the use of alchemical processes, Sara plays with photography, drawing, plants, movement and imagination as healing and clearing tools that weave creativity, ecologies and communities together.
Sara has exhibited both nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Recent notable commissions include: Para Site- Hong Kong, 10th Berlin Biennale, Wellcome Collection, Bethlem Gallery, Institute of Inner Vision, London College of Communication, Laure Genillard, Tate Modern, The British Library, Daily Life Ltd and Bromley By Bow Centre, Alexia Goethe Gallery, Artangel, Studio Voltaire, National Maritime Museum, Anxiety Festival, and digital visual diary project #1000 Happy Days (2014-2017).
A beautiful publication of ‘Things I did that nobody noticed (but that changed everything)’ has just been published by Bethlem Gallery, produced by Book Works, and supported by the Arts Council England. This book is a full collection of the 35 drawings, accompanied by poetry, essays and reflections by creative collaborators.
‘Things I did that nobody noticed (but that changed everything)’ was first commissioned for We Don’t Need Another Hero, the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art shown at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, June- Sept 2018.
It was then shown, reconstellated in Metaphysical Conundrums, Sara Haq’s solo show at Bethlem Gallery, Beckenham, UK, May – August 2021.
The third constellation of ‘Things I did that nobody noticed (but that changed everything)’ was shown in Design for a Garden, a group exhibition curated by Andrew Bick at Von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland, April – July 2023.