Project Space Resident

Sabine Gruffat

September 24 – October 22, 2026

Artist’s Statement

I understand communications technologies as part of material culture and strongly believe that they have the power to shape our reality. Media technologies are material and social objects and spaces, so my choice of medium and form is always integral to the meaning of the work. As Hito Steyerl states “the world can be understood but also altered by its tools. The tools of post- production… have become means of creation, not only of images but also of the world in their wake.” I do my own coding and learn all the technology necessary to make the work  so that my process draws attention to the technological and aesthetic frameworks that construct meaning in objects.”

Bio

Sabine Gruffat is a French-American artist born in Bangkok, Thailand. She co-founded and co-programs the Cosmic Rays Film Festival in Chapel Hill, NC with filmmaker Bill Brown. Currently she lives in Marseille, France. Sabine Gruffat works on experimental and essay forms and exhibits her work as installations, performances, and single-channel screenings. By actively engaging with both current and outmoded technology, Gruffat ’s work questions our standardized and mediated world.

Sabine Gruffat’s films and videos have screened at festivals worldwide including the Image Forum Festival, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, Migrating Forms, the Viennale, MoMA Documentary Fortnight, Chicago Underground, Cinéma du Réel, 25FPS, Transmediale in Berlin, and The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.  She has produced digital media works for public spaces as well as interactive installations that have been shown at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, Art In General, Devotion Gallery, PS1 Contemporary Art Museum, and Hudson Franklin in New York. Her recent video works are distributed by the Video Data Bank in Chicago, IL.

VSW Project Space Residencies are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature, Monroe County, and Joy of Giving Something.