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She Has Nothing To Say, She Has Everything To Say, 2022
Les Ateliers, Clermont Ferrand, France, 2017 © Photo: Vincent Blesbois
Les Ateliers, idem
Biennial Anozero - Healing and Repairing, Coimbra, Portugal, 2017 © Photo: Jorge Neves
Biennial Anozero - Healing and Repairing, idem
Metamorphosis of the work, Biennial Anozero - Healing and Repairing, Coimbra, Portugal, 2017
Index, Arquipelago Art Center, S. Miguel, Azores, Portugal, 2018 © Photo: Rui Soares
Index, idem
Quando somos 2 somos três, Foundation of Communications, Lisbon, Portugal, 2018 © Photo: Pedro Guimarães
Land Art 2022, Quinta do Pisão, Alcabideche, Portugal, 2022 © Photo: Valter Vinagre
Land Art 2022, idem

She Has Nothing To Say, She Has Everything To Say is a work in collaboration with Manon Harrois that started in 2017. Since then, it has been exhibited and transformed in several spaces and ways.

“The work (…) comes after both artists met again at an art residency in France. This is a performative body of work that results from a number of walks by the artists during a residency in Clermont Ferrand, in the volcanic region of Auvergne. It includes different elements, some found, and others manufactured, and has separate resolutions each time it is reinstalled. In turn, the piece can also be the subject of ‘activation’, that is, it can be embedded into the performance or serve as a device to be spread-out into drawing, leading to several metamorphoses”.
Excerpt from the sinopsis by Delfim Sardo, Anozero Biennial, Coimbra, Portugal, 2017

Les Ateliers, Clermont Ferrand, France, 2017
The artists manipulated the work for 3h30. This first public action – Now this is fucking too hot – was the result of 3 months of residency together.

Biennial Anozero – Healing and Repairing, Coimbra, Portugal, 2017
Collective show curated by Delfim Sardo and Luiza Teixeira de Freitas.

Index – Sonic Geometry, Arquipelago Art Center, S. Miguel, Azores, Portugal, 2018
Collective show curated by Nuno Faria and Nicolau Tudela.

Quando somos 2 somos três, Foundation of Communications, Lisbon, Portugal, 2018
A duo exhibition of Manon Harrois and Sara Bichão, with Galeria Bessa Pereira.

Land Art 2022, Quinta do Pisão, Alcabideche, Portugal, 2022
The artists manipulated the work for 24h. This action – 4 Pés – was the last until now.
Collective show curated by Luísa Soares de Oliveira.

Sara Bichão’s working process binds with emotional channels: to heal, to purge, to perpetuate, to play. The works are sculptural with a chromatic atmosphere specific to its own, which at times, are activated by the artist through performative actions. The materials used are often collected/offered/stolen, or come from other recycled and organic resources. More recently, Bichão has also been exploring experimental writing.

Sara Bichão is currently developing a long-term collaboration with La S Grand Atelier – Art Brut et Contemporain, in Belgium.

She was an artist-in-residence at Residency Unlimited (New York, USA) and Finisterrae (Ouessant, FR) in 2022, and has attended other residencies over the past years including: Porta 33 (2020, Madeira, Portugal); Cité Internationale des Arts (2019, Paris, FR); Artistes en Résidence (2017, Clermont Ferrand, FR). She received scholarships from the French Institute (2019, 2022), the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2014) and the Luso-American Foundation (2022).

A selection of her solo shows include: Lightless, Serralves Foundation, (2024, Porto); Before I Get Sick at MEEL, Press (2021, Lisbon); What is the thing, What is it at Galeria Filomena Soares (2020, Lisbon); Find me, I kill you at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2018, Lisbon); (2017) Coastal at Barbara Davis Gallery (2017, Houston); My Sun Cries at Portuguese Foundation of Communications (2016, Lisbon); Somebody’s Address at Rooster Gallery (2014, New York).

Some of her past group shows include: Désordres at Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon (2024, France); Between 58 and 131 infinitely, Galerie Martin Janda (Vienna, 2023); Slow Gala at 68 Art Institute (2022, Copenhagen); Twin Islands at Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain (2022, France); (2022) Traverser la nuit: Works From the Antoine de Galbert Collection at Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (2022, Portugal); Performance 0 at BoCA – Biennial of Contemporary Arts (2021, Portugal); Clorophilia at Porta33 (2021, Portugal); Storytelling at Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon (2019, France); Un pyjama pour deux at Passages Centre for Contemporary Art in Troyes (2019, France); CHAMA at Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar (2018, Portugal); What I am at Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (2017, Portugal); }{ { } at Diagrama (2015, Mexico); 2015) Eccentric Exercise II at Kulturni Centar Beograda (2015, Serbia); Soundless Harmonies at Rita Urso Gallery (2014, Italy); Extending The Line at Arevalo Gallery (2012, USA).

Bichão was selected for the FLAD Drawing Prize (2021), Anteciparte’09 (2009), Fidelidade Mundial – Jovens Pintores (2009), BPI – FBAUL (2008).

Her work is part of art collections such as: Fundación ARCO, Antoine de Galbert Collection, France; CACE (State’s Collection of Contemporary Art); FLAD (Luso American Foundation); PLMJ Foundation; EDP – MAAT Foundation; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; Carmona e Costa Foundation; MidFirst Bank Collection, Arizona, USA.

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Sara Bichão
Palácio dos Coruchéus
Rua Alberto Oliveira, Atelier 41,
1700-019 Lisboa, Portugal
Ask: sb@sarabichao.com

Galeria Filomena Soares
Rua da Manutenção n.º 80 (Xabregas),
1900-321 Lisboa, Portugal
info@gfilomenasoares.com
+351 962 373 956

Barbara Davis Gallery
4411 Montrose Boulevard, Suite D
Houston, 77006 Texas, USA
info@barbaradavisgallery.com
+1 713 520 9200

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