Sattva Caru Giacosa (born in Bailadores, Venezuela; lives and works in Vienna, Austria) The intersection of photography, performance, and installation forms the core of her artistic approach, through which she addresses social themes such as the female body, migration and representation. Drawing on her own post-migratory experience, she examines the tension between hypervisual politics and desensitisation to images, critically engaging with the hierarchies inherent in visual narratives. Using photography as an imaginative medium, she creates historical documents and affective cartographies, focusing on the body as a socio-political territory - a map of displacement, exodus and exile. Sattva teaches photography, visual narratives and writing, emphasising critical thinking about image-making, the gaze and storytelling.
