Théodora Barat

Born in 1985 in the Paris region, Théodora Barat is a visual artist and a director. She studied at the Beaux-Arts de Nantes before joining the Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains and was a resident at the Villa Medici last year. She’s now a teacher at the Beaux-Arts de Nantes.
Her work, around sculpture and video installation, has been presented at the Nuit Blanche (Paris), Cneai (Paris), the Emily Harvey Foundation and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (New York), the Friche de la Belle de Mai (Marseille), Mains d’Oeuvres (Paris), Glassbox (Paris), and the CAC Vilnius (Lithuania), as well as in video programming at the Palais de Tokyo.
She directed two previous documentaries in 2018 (“Pay Less Monument”, shot in New Jersey, USA and winner if the Audit talent award 2016) and in 2021 (“Off Power”, shot in Hong Kong), both selected at Cinéma du réel.