A ransom, an illicit border crossing, an exchange of nationality: Transactions of different sorts are often the conceptual starting point for Lydia Ourahmane’s (* 1992) art. The results encompass video, sound, performance, sculpture, and installation, exploring the way histories of displacement and colonial oppression are inscribed upon bodies. For her first exhibition in Switzerland, the Algerian-born artist presents a newly commissioned work.
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The exhibition is supported by the Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung and is a co-production of Kunsthalle Basel and Triangle-Astérides, Centre d’art contemporain, Marseille, realized with the assistance of gmem-CNCM-marseille and rhizome, Algiers.
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