Gone, Gone Beyond

at Centre Pompidou, Paris (15/01/2026 - 31/01/2026)

Georgia Sagri presents Gone, Gone Beyond as part of Drawing Performances, a program organized by Centre Pompidou in collaboration with Drawing Lab Paris, in dialogue with the exhibition “Drawings Without Limits” at the Grand Palais (16/12/2025 - 25/03/2026).

Opening the program, Sagri explores the body’s capacity for transformation, where drawing precedes performance, functioning as a space where gestures take shape and emotions are inscribed.

Georgia Sagri’s practice unfolds as an investigation into breath – the invisible yet material force that binds us. Her new work, comprising a sculpture and a performance, offers two parallel strategies for engaging the self, each reflecting on the shifting nature of the “I”. The project was conceived by the artist after encountering one of Greece’s most important contemporary poets, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, who composed her final work in a time of deep personal grief. In the performance, Sagri stages a dialogue with the self, asking how identity can be reassembled when coherence falters — how we pause and acknowledge sorrow, and take the next step towards connection.

The work examines how we perceive, fragment, and recompose ourselves in moments of rupture. The pressure-device sculpture functions like a living organism, and as it inhales and exhales the materiality of air, often dismissed as immaterial, becomes tactile and audible. Sculpture and performance share a single membrane: both in constant motion, both vanishing and returning. Together, they propose a coexistence of the visible and the invisible. Sagri’s work gives disappearance a form and presence a face, composing the self after the vanishing ego — gone, gone beyond — in the very moment of its healing.

The performance took place on January 15th, 2026 at Drawing Lab Paris.

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