Sacha Rey is a visual artist and film-maker born in Nice in 1991. He graduated with honors from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He defended a dissertation on “documentary dance” at the EHESS.
Sacha Rey has exhibited at La Villette (Paris 2023), the Villa Vassilieff (Paris, 2016), Bétonsalon (Paris, 2017), the Générateur (Gentilly, 2017), Poush Manifesto (Clichy, 2021) and Le Château d’Angers (Angers, 2016), as well as at the Stadtmuseum (Düsseldorf) and the Spiral Wacoal Art Center (Tokyo) in 2019. He has performed in France, Belgium and Japan for numerous choreographers and artists. In 2021-2022, he was resident at Artagon, Marseilles and at “Locus Sonus Locus Vitae” at the Beaux-arts d’Aix-en Provence (ESAAIX).
Artist’s career
Sacha Rey s’engage dans une pratique qu’il qualifie de « danse documentaire » - refusant ainsi l’attribution de catégories. Sacha Rey utilise la danse comme un langage, comme une parole aussi valide et légitime que l’oralité. Par cette méthode, il cherche à interroger les mémoires physiques des participant·es. Dans une perspective intersectionnelle féministe et queer, ses recherches plastiques reposent sur un effort constant de mise en forme de récits intimes, politiques et poétiques. Il cherche à créer un récit à partir de ce qui manque. Il met volontairement en place des récits criblés, incluant le manque de données, la privation sensorielle, pour provoquer un déséquilibre, une perte de repère, une faille dans laquelle le spectateur interfère avec sa propre histoire.
The forces at work
What would a documentary about humans filmed from the perspective of flamingos be like?
Sacha Rey’s project is a documentary video installation. It questions the notion of the collective through the relationship that humans can have with other forms of life. This exploration, based on the particularity of a protected Mediterranean species, the pink flamingo, is intended to forge inter-species alliances in which non-humans and the emancipation demands of minoritized people discover common issues.
Activists travel the roads of Spain to meet flamingos, while sharing their experiences in transfeminist and ecologist collectives. This video installation project, imagined as an “ethological road trip”, aims to forge inter-species alliances by mapping the struggles for trans lives and those for the preservation of wetlands, the bird’s habitat. From Barcelona to Marseille, via the Camargue and the Ebro delta, activists filmed from the speculative point of view of the pink flamingo, share and invent tools for managing conflict and violence. The aim is to avoid punitive practices such as “callout” or “canceling”. This film takes the form of a non-speciesist, bodily conversation from a critical perspective of anthropocentrism, using “activism through pleasure”.
Activists will share their memories of adelphities, through happy and collective moments, while sharing moments of reflexivity on their commitments.
Partners
The installation “État des lieux des forces en présence” is supported by cneai =, ArTeC, Culture Move Europe, l’Institut Français de Barcelone, SOMA, Hangar X Triangle Astérides, Fondation des Artistes, Mécènes du Sud Aix-Marseille, le CNC, Artagon et l’ESAAIX