sara yaoska herrera dixon

Moving between different disciplines and formats, my practice understands language, materials, and histories/stories from a spatial perspective. I am interested in where concepts come from, how they migrate, adapt, are adopted, and land in different realities and bodies.

I co-create context-specific spaces and processes that aim to be ethical, political, poetic and aesthetic in order to think, imagine and make together.

My longest ongoing project, summer pools, is a yearly self-organised summer programme in Scotland, in collaboration with Eloise Maltby Maland and running since 2023. Each year, as we return to the site, we borrow a Gaelic word connected to the local landscape and territory, which frames the programme. To date, the project has unfolded through three editions: targhairm, dòirneag, and dubhagan. These words shape activities including movement, writing, making and mapping workshops, among others. We are interested in language as a form of sustained attention and as a way of implicating our bodies in the land, shaping a collective practice that is situated, relational, and attentive to our positions within wider ecological systems.

Alongside this, I maintain a material practice, working primarily with clay, which I have developed over the past five years as an embodied space of thinking/feeling/sensing/intuiting. More recently, this ceramic practice has become integrated into the project-based side of my work, including vessels for sowing grief in collaboration with Andi Icaza at La Escocesa, and clay bodies, displaced soils at Hallo Festspiele in Hamburg.

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I see the world through my experiences and affective relationships in Nicaragua, the UK and the city of Barcelona. Graduating in Architecture and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), I focused on architectural theory and research, design/art and film studies. Currently I live in Barcelona, where I work in exhibition production and publishing, and collaborate with other artists, researchers and curators.

Sara Yaoska Herrera Dixon is a research resident from 2026 to 2027.