SARA SADIK

Lives and works in Marseille

Born in 1994

Sara Sadik is a French artist of Algerian descent whose work spans video, installation, performance, and digital media. Drawing on video games, social networks, and contemporary youth culture, she explores themes of identity, masculinity, desire, and belonging. Through what she describes as Beurcore, a visual language inspired by the experiences of Maghrebi youth in France, Sadik creates immersive narratives that challenge stereotypes and offer nuanced representations of contemporary social realities. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is recognized for its innovative use of digital culture as a tool for storytelling and social reflection...Read more

Sara Sadik explores the codes, languages and symbols to deconstruct clichés and propose alternative narratives

Featured works

Exhibitions

Sara Sadik video extract. Person dressed in white winter gear holding a smartphone in a snowy outdoor environment.

Summer Group Show Level 2

From one level to another, the summer exhibition plays with the idea of platforms as a nod to the world of video games that Sara Sadik engages with, using it to create a space for listening and empathy. In Khtobtogone, she uses GTA to give a young man a voice to speak about his romantic life and aspirations. A virile avatar in a virtual world becomes a way to free expression, while playing with stereotypes.....Read more

Galerie Hamid Khellafi

Sara Sadik video extract. A man wearing a white sports outfit with the name Benetto and number 0 on the back stands in a field during sunset, looking at his phone, with tall grass around him.

Summer Group Show Level 1

Next Level. The Hamid Khellafi gallery changes level for a summer. After the opening of its cycle dedicated to Algerian artists in February 2025, and the first solo exhibitions of Chemsedine Herriche, Adlane Samet and Mehdi Djelil, the gallery inaugurates a new stage with Summer Group Show, an evolving collective exhibition. It marks a turning point in programming: a transition from the singular to the multiple, from the monograph to the multi-voice conversation….Read more

Galerie Hamid Khellafi

A person dressed in a neon green outfit with a matching face covering and illuminated pink circle around their face, next to a woman wearing a purple and yellow sports jacket with striped details, all set against a starry background.

Institut du monde arabe, Paris

AraboFuturs

Borrowing from the aesthetics of video games or the codes of reality TV, Sara Sadik mixes video, performance, installation and photography in her artistic practice. Playing with social mythologies, thwarting the stereotypes of conservative editorialists as much as the algorithms of search engines, she reinjects them into imaginary and diverted stories, often with science-fiction forms….Read more