fabel*
Studio

This kitchen is for dancing (pt.3) (2026) What does it mean, to live in a room? Is to live in a place to take possession of it? What does that mean? As from when does somewhere truly become yours?
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This kitchen is for dancing (pt.1,2) (2025) A personal research project on movement and familiarity in the domestic sphere, consisting of four interwoven parts. The practice-oriented experiments have a specific focus on an “imaginary” kitchen, formed from different kitchens in my tangible memory.
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Wat er al is (2024)
“Wat er al is” invites us to enter into a dialogue with our more-than-human world. By cultivating an equitable and reciprocal relationship, a dense, sentient world unfolds. In doing so, our world will undoubtedly be richer for it.

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Plateaukunst (2024)
Installation made for the annual art route held at the Plateau of Margraten, about the yellow iris. 

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Reversed archeology (2024)
As a platform for architecture and design, Bureau Europa offers space for regional and local artists, architects, and designers to present their work. 

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STEK #1 (2023)  
A spontaneous collaboration between CC De Kimpel (Bilzen) and a group of local artists, working on or from the surrounding region. 

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A missing kind of orange (2023)  
‘A missing kind of orange’ is a group exhibition in relation to the color orange as a melancholic feeling and a sense of missing.

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Works on paper (2021-2023)  
Sketches and drawings made around the theme of a “beacon”,
to be placed at a specific slope of the Albert Canal. 
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Soft structures (2021-2023)
Small sculptures made around the theme of a “beacon” to be placed at a slope of the Albert Canal. 

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located at
Fietenstraat 4
3740 Bilzen-Hoeselt
The projects of Sarah-Joy Zwarts (1987, Maastricht NL) depart from a sincere interest in how we relate ourselves to our environment, its history and materials. Through images and words she explores how a dialogue can translate itself into new forms, while still being logically and sensitively in line with what is already present.

As the interplay between images and words play a key role in her projects, she informally founded fabel*. It functions as a place for her (con)textual thoughts and acts alongside physical projects performed in the studio, as both can never be truly separated. 

From 2018, Sarah-Joy works as an educator at the Maastricht Academy of Architecture. 






Currently working on:
This kitchen is for dancing - pt.4
Ceramic installation


fabel* 01 - Echoes 
Publication


Ergens, in een zomer (op papier)
Charcoal drawings


Wintervacht (working title)





Last updated 31.10.26


© Sarah-Joy Zwarts 2026