This publication was produced in conjunction with Sasha Huber's exhibition YOU NAME IT, organized and circulated by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, first presented at Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, April 9-September 12, 2021, curated by Rosa de Graaf and Justine Kohleal, and at The Power Plant, February 5-May 1, 2022, curated by Noor Ale. The touring venues for YOU NAME IT include Autograph, London, November 10, 2022-March 25, 2023, curated by Mark Sealy, Renee Mussai, and Bindi Vora, and Turku Art Museum, Finland, June-September 2023, curated by Noor Ale and Selina Kiiskinen. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
This comprehensive publication focuses on the artwork and activism of Sasha Huber. A Helsinki-based visual artist and researcher of Swiss and Haitian heritage, Huber's creative practice encompasses performance, photography, film, mixed media, reparative interventions, and collaborations to investigate colonial residues left in the environment. Her projects conceive of natural spaces' mountains, lakes, glaciers, forests, and craters' as contested territories, highlighting the ways in which history is imprinted onto the landscape through acts of remembrance, including memorialization through naming and the erection of monuments. For over a decade, Huber has produced work in relation to the cultural and political Demounting Louis Agassiz campaign, which seeks to redress the racist legacy of the Swiss-born naturalist and glaciologist. With her artworks, Huber challenges the terms by which we remember, asking not only who and what we memorialize, but also, and more importantly, how we do so.
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