Studio 106 L.A.

With a month of October, we are opening a new online show on the Studio106LA virtual space.
SensingOtherWise by .drapeau_ is going to be available for you as part of our archived content—just as immersive as it was a week ago 🫶🌱 To find it, type our url/past and click on “view.”

This show that we have hosted for the past couple of months, is at once a personal narrative and a profound meditation on the intersections of self-knowledge, collaboration, cooperation, and commoning. As Sarah writes, “This is already a research happening and living in me, anyway.” The exhibition takes this sentiment—the personal as embedded within the relational—and extends it into a visual dramaturgy: dynamic, nonlinear, inquisitive, and gently probing complex and often difficult themes.
In this online exhibition, Sarah’s work (images, fragments from her text, videos, and documentation of her collaborative work) leads us into a visual terrain where the deliberate and the instinctual converge. “This is like taking a picture of a movement,” she notes. And indeed, the show negotiates a fluid boundary between structure and spontaneity—offering compositions that are at once architectural and organic, mysterious and familiar, rare and common, personal and public.

Her layered approach reveals itself in fragmented yet interconnected gestures: marks that echo both the tools of nature and those we invent; vivid fields of environmental color alongside tonal gradations that foreground the human hand. These subtle transparencies hint at a scaffolding of structure, while also evoking the ephemeral qualities of memory, experience, and continuous learning—learning that is internal yet always entangled with surrounding elements, actors, and influences.

The digital space becomes an ideal setting for this interplay. Free from physical constraints, still images shift and reorient, while moving images breathe life into the notion of process and transformation. The result invites slower, more contemplative encounters.
As Sarah’s work and words suggest, the aspiration lies in sensing OtherWise: sensing other wise, sensing, other, wise.

The show was organized with support of

Intertwined, connected, branching out—togetherness and uniqueness of each part of the system that we are in unity.

Visit Sarah Drapeau’s .drapeau_ show “Sensing (Other)Wise” by landing on our studio’s webpage. Curated by Lena Pozdnyakova

Created with support from the School of Commons in Zürich.

Image credits: 1) Magnified moss and lichens, Sweden residency, ©Sarah Drapeau; 2)Inner and outer landscapes, workshop-performance at Konvooi Art Festival, Brugge, 2022 ©photo from Mo Terkessidis and Victor Van Hoof’s video