Abstract
<jats:p>This chapter examines Sarkis's art through the lens of scenography as an expanded field, showing how his installations transform exhibitions into performative stages, creating transtemporal memory environments where memory is performed rather than represented. In Sarkis's exhibitions, artworks, found objects, and the audience participate in a transtemporal experience that intertwines past and present. His transnational and transhistorical sensibility engages deeply with personal memory, collective trauma, and cultural history. Across his career, Sarkis has reframed his own artworks in dialogue with historical and contemporary materials, generating new constellations of meaning. This chapter contributes to the study of spatial aesthetics and memory, introducing scenography as an analytical framework for understanding contemporary installation art as a performative practice of remembrance. Through analysis of Respiro (Venice Biennale, 2015) and Endless (Arter, 2023), the chapter examines how transtemporality, performativity, and embodied spectatorship operate within exhibition-making.</jats:p>