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I Used To

Artist Sarah Sanders explores the self through ritualistic repetition

Feb 21, 2014 | By Staff Writer

In a bold and brave display of self-examination, performance artist Sarah Sanders scrawled sentences starting with ā€˜I used toā€¦ā€™ on the floors and walls of an aged building. In a remarkable show of the progression of time and an examination into identity, memory and evolution through repetition, Sanders filled the empty space with admissions about her past self: ā€˜I used to be in controlā€™, ā€˜I used to be in painā€™, ā€˜I used to be in loveā€™. The ritualistic writing with chalk on the floors and walls of the building are a physical representation of that journey into a past self or identity through movement and language. It is simultaneously a documentation of memories, of change, of progression, of evaluation and ultimately, of moving on.Ā 

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Sarah Sanders explains her work ‘I Used to’ which was performed asĀ part of ā€˜The Dark Wouldā€™ exhibition at Summerhall.Ā 

Photo Credit: Nick Leyland


 
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