Lucile Saada CHOQUET

About the artist

Lucile Saada Choquet (she / adopted – FR) is a Brussels-based artist-researcher who develops her own artistic language from a feminist and decolonial perspective situated in the Global North. Trained as an actress at Arts2 (Belgium), she experiments with performance, dramaturgy and directing, questioning the porosity between the performing arts and the visual arts.

Defining herself as an artivist, Lucile Saada is concerned with social movements, their narratives and their various impacts on the bodies of minority groups. She creates forms that engage with political bodies and rethink collective imaginaries. Central to her work are the relationships between the intimate and the political, literature and archiving. With Jusque dans nos lits (Prix Maeterlinck for “best discovery” in the 2022-2023 season (Belgium)), she situates her work in the context of collective healing for colonial traumas.

She is currently conducting artistic research into international adoption: Who Adopts Whom? A (Re)search for Love and Justice from the experience of a transracial and transnational adoptee. With the SAADA STATION, a research space created within the Future Laboratory programme, she develops documentary and scenic processes to subvert the romanticized narrative of international adoption. She will continue her investigation by shifting her gaze and her practice with a series of return visits between Ethiopia and Belgium. This research is supported by the Fonds de la Recherche en Art/PDR-FRArt (2024-2026).

Discover more about the artist’s project and presentation here: Lucile Saada Choquet