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Latifa Echakhch

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Latifa Echakhch

(Born 1974, works in Switzerland)

Blush, 2018/2019

Bricks

Latifa Echakhch often starts with existing objects in her art and lets the material, in various forms, become the artwork. She frequently returns to the words “identity” and “belonging”, as well as references to childhood and political events. What she introduces us to is often the result of some violent action. In her investigations, she is more likely to break apart than build up. She has crushed narrow tea glasses with gold ornamentation and strewn the shards along the walls of the exhibition, created a mural painting she subsequently scraped away. Echakhch has commented on the destructiveness in her work as opportunities: build up, erase, begin again, leave and forget, leave and highlight, do again, do better—reflect. Bricks are a familiar building material; in Blush, that shape is combined with bricks that are completely pulverized into pigment that dyes the ground red.