Sara Enrico

Sara arrived directly after the opening of a major solo exhibition, and thus the residency traced a softer rhythm - one of deceleration, reflection, and reorientation. Our conversations moved across her practice from 2010 to the present, examining the evolution of her thinking around surface, material behaviour, corporeality, and the choreography of objects.

Sara’s work is rooted in a profound attention to the physical properties of materials- their collapses, resistances, postures, their capacity to hold or distort the imprint of the body. Her practice often begins with ways of capturing movement, light, and spatial residue. These scans, treated as abstractions of embodied presence, become the starting point for sculptural forms and architectural interventions.

Her work inhabits a space that is abstract but never detached from lived experience. In a past project, she also explored the “negative of movement,” the trace rather than the gesture, collaborating with choreographers to expand notions of liveness and spatial perception. The body is never depicted, yet always invoked- as weight, as orientation, as memory. In the context of the residency, Sara used the time to examine how these elements speak to each other across years of production, thinking about how her materials might continue unfolding new forms of spatial and sensorial inquiry.

Text by Akis Kokkinos, Visiting Curator, Launch Pad LaB, Autumn 2025

Sara Enrico, The Jumpsuit Theme, 2022. Concrete, pigment.

Views of the works in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Courtesy: l'artista, La Biennale di Venezia, Vistamare Milano / Pescara.

Foto: Floriana Glacinti.

Sara Enrico "Unearth Desires", installation view, Vistamare Milano, 2025.
Courtesy: the artist and Vistamare Milano / Pescara.

Photo: Andrea Rossetti.