Sara Sahores
About
Sara Sahores (b. 1998) is a visual artist and photographer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, who now works and resides in London. Before coming to the Royal College of Art to study Photography, she studied Architecture at an undergraduate level in Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires (2017-2022).
Her practice spans a variety of techniques and formats (from digital to analog processes, including C-type printing, rayograms, polaroids and screen-printing), but is always rooted in the pleasure of looking. This way of intensely experiencing the visual world around her, leads to the desire to capture and possess what she sees – for which photography is the perfect medium. In her work, she aspires to replicate this pleasure of looking, and is currently exploring which are the elements that could produce this pleasure. Ambiguity, colour, and layers of discovery in the image are some factors that she believes play a key role.
During her year at the RCA, she has focused on two main bodies of work. The first one, Swimming Studies, is a series of 35mm film underwater photos taken between 2023-2024 in London swimming pools, during synchronised swimmers training sessions. The project is an exercise in using the camera as an excuse to knock down barriers to get into hardly accessible places, while exploring the intuitive itch to own something by photographing it, the ambiguity present in darkness, and the physicality of human bodies when submerged in a different medium.
The second body of work, On Stealing, starts by appropriating a series of screenshots from livestream surveillance cameras, to gather a collection of ambiguous images from different types of scenes. While in Swimming Studies the camera is used as the means to physically get into hardly accessible places, On Stealing uses a computer and the internet to reach places all around the world that are not physically accessible at the moment. Both works are driven by the pursuit of visual pleasure, a strong sense of instinct and the desire to possess the images.
You can find out more about Sara’s work on her website (linked above), and on her Instagram (@sarasahores).
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