Sara Roitman

Born in 1953 in Santiago (Chile)
Lives and works in Quito (Ecuador)

Throughout her trajectory as a photographer, Sara Roitman has incorporated video art, installation, objects, neon, embroidery and sewing into her repertoire of artistic practices. Her work is about creating and rearranging spaces of reflection and speculation. Her work has been exhibited in Ecuador, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Israel, the US and Singapore. In 2009 she published IMPERDIBLE, a photographic book of her artwork that won several international awards, including the Gold Medal, Sappi in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her artworks are in private collections and in public institutions.

Sara Roitman writes of her work on view at KB17: “Combining works of different series under a single title is not uncommon in my artistic practices. I have been working with the human body for many years from different aspects and perspectives. I picture the geographies of bodies; I picture the body as territory; I displace the body and make it fade. The photographic works: S/T I and S/T II portray the body after the soul abandons it. The portrait is an attempt to shape a body and its soul fading away and the emptiness that is perceived in its displacement. In the works Territorios I and Territorios II I create fictional geographies of the same bodies that make us doubt if it is about more than one person in the same territory.”