Being Our Most True Selves and Celebrating the Truth of Others - Samuel de Saboia
Hope Newspaper by Fevered Sleep, Tower Hamlets 2021. Photo by Shingi Rice
We're creating a Hope Newspaper which will be distributed in our local area, Tower Hamlets, in East London. We spoke to a number of people we met in the street about how 2020 was for them, and what they had to be hopeful about.
Uh it’s been kind of one of those weird massive years.
Like at the beginning I wasn’t sure if we’d go through a big major event, and at the same time I kind of wanted to be inside of one.
But after it started to happen I was just like, was I even aware that this would be the major event? I mean this year was, it’s been so far really intense but really good for me.
At the beginning of the year I was in Brazil for the carnival. Two months later I was living in Zurich for my next show. So I spent three months inside of a 500 metre studio creating ten pieces and ten sculptures for my first show in Zurich.
On my first day there my grandfather passed away in Brazil. So it was just like the middle of quarantine in fucking Switzerland, with no knowledge of Swiss German and the necessity of producing a whole exhibition. So it started with like big jumps.
It was a time of growth in all the senses, but also of being aware that it’s not only about privilege but about finding the right timing for things.
Even with the crazy and intense world that it was and still is, it was the right time for being, doing what I was doing. And since then, just acknowledging and being grateful for everything that is possible now.
Every single space of peace or freedom, it’s just really worth to take a shot and take a risk with it because it might be the only and the last one.
- Samuel de Saboia