Sarah Caillard has developed a proteiform artistic practice that combines sculpture, drawing, video, and installation. Through her work, she explores the concept of the imprint—in its physical, psychic, and memorial dimensions—and how it embeds itself in our gestures, our bodies, and our narratives.

Influenced by filed such as psychoanalysis, epigenetics, and the philosophy of the imaginary, her work is infused with the marvellous and the esoteric. Positioned between the sacred and the banal, she questions the images that shape us unconsciously: ancient myths, pop icons, sacred or viral figures. She examines their persistence through mimetic or distorted forms that inhabit our movements and haunt our bodies and stories.

The phenomenon of haunting—central to her practice—is approached as the insistence of something that moves through us without belonging to us: a memory, a trace, the echo of a story or an emotion. Caillard composes sensitive archives by casting bodies—her own or those of close companions. Their postures, borrowed from art history and pop culture, replay archetypes while also subverting them.

Fragmented and glitched, these bodies oscillate between presence and disappearance, between the sacred and the selfie, between icon and viral persona. These “imprinted” bodies become vectors of invisible transmissions, activating latent narratives—those that move across generations, screens, and personal or collective mythologies.

Mainly made from concrete, her sculptures and installations are also made with materials such as resin, fiberglass, and retroreflective fabric. The choice of material expresses the symbolic weight of each piece. In her drawings and paintings, she assembles a visual language of hybrid symbols, reinvented mythologies, and affective triviality. Her videos adopt a fragile, low-fi aesthetic, mixing handcrafted models with détourned pop formats (Instagram stories, YouTube clips, amateur cosplay), blended with symbolic motifs.

Her sculptures, paintings, and videos restage narratives where art history, popular culture, and adolescent rituals intertwine—where historical gestures encounter intimate ones.