Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, Modiano was an outstanding conceptual artist who worked with painting, installations, sculpture and performance. In 1980 she participated in the mythical Salon Atenas and in 1981 she was one of the artists representating Colombia at the Sao Paulo Biennial. Her work Desaparece una Cultura was exhibited at the 5th Sydney Biennial. In her practice, Modiano reflects on the political and cultural context of the time, creating structures and geometric shapes related to pre-colonial architecture and the essential geometrical patterns present in nature. Sara Modiano’s work keeps developing, in a language indisputably her own, the concrete postulates of geometric painting. Her work has done away with all references to expressionism as an object, concentrating instead on an interest in rational forms of recognizable architectural inspiration.