Simona Sala
Simona Sala is a visual artist, actress and performer.
In 2006 she founded the performing arts company Sineglossa. Since 2011 she has worked at the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw (PL) within the company Teatr Zar, in the performances Armine, Sister and Medea / On Getting Across, taking part in numerous festivals including the San Francisco International Arts Festival and the Théâtre de la Tempête in Paris. In 2011 she collaborated with Fundacja Jubilo on the three-year project Unlocking in Wroclaw Penitentiary No.1 with long-sentence inmates. Between 2015 and 2018 she organised field travels to Salvador de Bahia to research Candomblé rituals and to southern Iran (Abadan) for possession rituals. In those years she collaborated with Jarosław Fret, director of Teatr Zar, on the creation of Witness Action, a new interactive and participatory approach to performance aimed at moving beyond the merely aesthetic experience towards one linked to personal identity and dignity. Between 2015 and 2017 she organised conferences and public actions in which audiences and artists discussed how art and artists can witness and act, through a new rituality of participation. In 2019 she began her latest work Alètheia, creating site-specific installations around the theme of what cannot be hidden and the relationship with memory and witness. In 2022 she made a field trip to Chiapas, Mexico, with Giovanna Maroccolo’s Fusion Art Center, following a political and social engagement within Zapatista communities.
Since 2023 she has been collaborating with the association On Borders, an ethnographic research laboratory on border crossings, on a field project between Italy and France.