The collaborative practice of Sara Goldschmied and Eleonora Chiari explores history and memory through a provocative language poised between irony and parody, displacement and visual and semantic détournement. Working across photography, performance, video, and installation, the duo frequently addresses sexuality and female identity, often using themselves as performers. Internationally recognised, they became widely known in 2015 when their installation Dove andiamo a ballare questa sera? was mistakenly discarded by a cleaner at Museion in Bolzano after being mistaken for rubbish. The incident was reported by the BBC and The Guardian and later inspired Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund’s film The Square. The duo participated in the Venice Biennale in 2009 and 2022, as well as Dublin Contemporary, the Berlin Biennale, and the Rome Quadriennale. In 2012, they were awarded the Castello di Rivoli Prize as the best group of emerging Italian artists. Founded in 2001, they have worked under the name Goldschmied & Chiari since 2014. They live and work in Milan.