WHAT DOES ART MEAN TO YOU? Curiosity, history, humor, sadness, honesty, strangeness, performance, invention, reinvention, inspiration, memory. There is a great book by Alain de Botton called Art as Therapy, which explains how art is used as a coping mechanism. It allows us to better understand ourselves, and the world around us. A MEMORABLE ART EXPERIENCE: As a teenager, I saw Olafur Eliasson’s “Weather Project” installation, which suffused the Tate Modern in an incandescent glow, and had this out of body experience. It has stayed with me ever since which is why I do a lot of performance and large-scale installation. All the exhibitions I do I try to create that emotional-physical-mental reaction. WHAT WORK DO YOU HAVE HANGING ABOVE YOUR SOFA? WHAT ABOUT YOUR BATHROOM? A Danny Fox painting sits above my sofa. In my bathroom, I have a self-portrait by Angolan photographer Keyezua, as well as a series of mini prints of breasts and bums!

Roya Sachs is a curator and artistic director based in London. She is co-founder of creative house, Triadic, and most recently the Co-Founder of Format Festival in Bentonville, Arkansas. Roya has presented exhibitions, performances and installations in collaboration with companies and institutions such as Performa, Google, Spring Place, Gertrude, Mana Contemporary and more.

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