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VISUALS ARTS           FR  
Anatoms sonores
Neuzusammensetzung
Anatoms
Corps en suspens
Read Lips
Studies
The black project
Profiling Watermarks
Polyptyque
VOID Project
SOUND PERFORMANCES

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© Zabo Chabiland 2026

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                          Zabo Chabiland (b. 1968) is a French visual artist working across contemporary photography, installation, and sound performance. She has lived and worked in New York and Berlin and is currently based in the Loire Valley, France. Her practice explores the relationships between identity, sound, gesture, material, and perception through experimental processes. Raised in a creative environment, she learned early on to build bridges between mediums. During long periods of experimentation, she confronted photography with unconventional supports and X-ray film. Over time and at her own pace, she has developed a coherent body of work composed of interconnected series which engage the viewer’s gaze, scotopic vision, and our understanding of portraiture (Polyptych, Corps en Suspens, The Black Project, Profiling Watermarks, and Neuzusammensetzung ).
In her sound performances, she reactivates musical instruments as dynamic materials, transforming their conventional uses to reveal unexpected sonic possibilities. Her first vinyl, Watewah-Sleeping Odyssey, was released in 2020 on Grautag Records label. In 2026 she had a solo exhibition at the RDV Gallery in Nantes with the project Anatoms Sonores that merges photography and sound performance.