SARA GRAÇA

TOI, MOI, LA PLUIE

First Edition

Publ. Goswell Road, January 2026

Imitation book box (11 cm x 18 cm)

ISBN 978-2-488450-07-2

7 plates in 2 mm PVC

75 copies

Language: English, French & Portuguese

Printed in Portugal & Italy

Price: 25 € (+P&P)

All copies are numbered & signed by Graça

toi, moi, la pluie is a sequence of cards that can be assembled into three-dimensional configurations. The cards present two sides of the same moment: rain falling outdoors, and an art exhibition taking place indoors.

With humour and a sense of casual abandon, Sara Graça reduces the exhibition space to a dry place offering shelter from the rain. Despite a moment of intense intimacy—a passionate kiss—the space is largely inhabited by figures who do not seem to know one another, or to get along. The same kiss takes place outdoors; lovers, after all, do not care about the weather. Drawn in a caricatural style, recalling Ad Reinhardt’s How to Look series, these characters speak English, French, and Portuguese. We cannot tell whether they are visiting or staying; we do not know where they are.

The cards are accompanied by a small cut-out horse that can also be assembled and added. A memory of a past life, a lingering presence, a sense of “other”, the horse becomes the final piece of the puzzle. It acts as an exclamation point to these otherwise trivial human exchanges—cutting across inside and outside, shelter and rain, intimacy, cohabitation, and distance.

The publication is disguised as a book, revealing its playful nature only once opened and inviting the reader to assemble, rearrange, and make choices of their own.

Artist bio: Sara Graça (Lisbon, 1993) lives in London and works in interdisciplinary ways, mainly using sculpture, drawing, photography and video. Her practice often questions ideas of value, authenticity and impermanence.

This publication was produced with the support of the ‘Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Delegation in France’, which co-financed it as part of the EXPOSITIONS GULBENKIAN (edition #6) programme to support Portuguese art in French art institutions and spaces.