Georgia Sagri
Performance Dessin | Drawing Lab x Centre Pompidou
January 15, 2026–January 31, 2026Drawing Lab, Paris, France
The Drawing Lab, a space dedicated to experimentation and exhibitions, welcomes a program of five performances presented in dialogue with the exhibition “Drawings Without Limits” at the Grand Palais, on view from December 16, 2025 to March 25, 2026.
These five events form a fluid, carefully articulated trajectory in which the position of drawing is continually questioned and redefined.
Opening the program, Greek artist Georgia Sagri explores the body’s capacity for transformation. In her practice, drawing precedes performance, serving as a space where gestures take shape and emotions are inscribed.
In Gone Gone Beyond, first chapter presented at the Götenberg Biennial, Sagri stages a performance with an inflatable sculpture to confront the rupture caused by grief. Breath becomes central: audible, sculptural, and affective, marking the boundary between presence and disappearance. The work builds on an encounter with poet Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, whose final and only thetartical piece emerged from a place of deep personal loss. Through this lens, Sagri traces how sorrow destabilizes and reshapes identity. The performance sets a cycle of strain, release, containment, and adaptation into motion, between body and sculpture, visibility and invisibility, self and its becoming.
Georgia Sagri (b. 1979) engages performance as a critical field where the boundaries between art and life, subjectivity and politics, are continuously tested. Her work examines autonomy, invisible labor, affective endurance, and the body’s capacity for transformation, and recovery. Working across performance, sculpture, video, and drawing, Sagri treats each medium as part of a continuous system of embodiment and reflection. The body in her practice is not simply expressive, but a contested site—at once vulnerable and resistant, inscribed with pressure, memory, and agency.
Drawing holds a central place in Sagri’s broader practice. For her, it is both training and release, a medium where the body thinks, stores, and processes experience. Whether used to map forthcoming performances or to exhale the aftershocks of action, drawing captures the trace of thought. It reveals the care, vulnerability, and endurance the body carries. Her drawings extend the present of the performance into the now, holding the original impulse while absorbing the residue of embodiment.
Georgia Sagri’s work has been presented widely in major exhibitions and international institutions including: documenta 14, Manifesta 11 (Zurich), Götenberg Biennial (2025), 76th Whitney Biennial, 14th Istanbul Biennial, 12th Lyon Biennial, and solo and group presentations at: MoMA, MoMA PS1, and the Guggenheim Bilbao (New York/Bilbao); Palais de Tokyo (Paris); KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Gropius Bau (Berlin); Kunsthalle Basel; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (Vaduz); Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Rivoli); Skulpturenpark Köln (Cologne); de Appel (Amsterdam); Mimosa House (London); Portikus (Frankfurt); Museum of Cycladic Art and TAVROS (Athens); and the SculptureCenter (New York).
She is the Associate Professor of the Studio of Performance at Athens School of Fine Arts (GR), and the founder of the Athens-based independent art space, ΥΛΗ[matter]HYLE (hyle.gr) a non-profit, dedicated to care practices and social empathy at local and international levels.
Curated by:
Jean-Max Colard, Head of the Service de la parole, Culture and Creation Department, Centre Pompidou
Alice Pialoux, Curator at the Service de la parole, Culture and Creation Department, Centre Pompidou
