Georgia Sagri
Art Basel Parcours

Georgia Sagri’s practice spans across performance, sculpture, and sound to explore identity, political agency, and the body’s role within social systems. Influenced by activism and collective struggles, her work examines endurance, behavior, and power through artworks that test physical and emotional limits, while questioning contemporary individualized consumer culture.

Sagri often draws on breathing, rhythm, and somatic awareness as tools for rethinking public space. Through her ongoing IASI performative frameworks—a term derived from the Greek word iasi (recovery)—she creates environments that invite stillness, listening, and subtle forms of gathering, proposing conviviality as a shared sensory condition grounded in vulnerability and attention.

For Parcours, Sagri presents an installation combining an interactive sculpture The Heart of Kore (2025) with four leather-made kinetic drum paintings. Kore (Κόρη) in Greek means “daughter”, “young woman” and “pupil of the eye.”

The installation unfolds as a seating arrangement that offers a space for rest and reflection. At its center is a fragile, mouth-blown glass form shaped by the artist’s breath. The four paintings surrounding the sculpture function as resonant membranes, activated through strikes at irregular intervals to emit soft rhythmic pulses, evoking heartbeats.

Together, breath, sound, and time shape an environment in which visitors move in and out of synchrony, transforming the urban context into an architecture of collective presence and embodied encounter.

Parcours sector curated by: Stefanie Hessler