Exhibition

Lydia Ourahmane | Barzakh

21 May 2022 – 18 Sep 2022

Regular hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
09:30 – 17:30
Wednesday
09:30 – 17:30
Thursday
09:30 – 17:30
Friday
09:30 – 17:30
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Sunday
10:00 – 18:00

Cost of entry

individual 12 euro, reduction 10 euro, 19-25 years 2 euro, -18 years free

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As she could not return to Algeria during the lockdown, she brought her 'home' to her in the form of an installation that was given exactly the same surface and layout as her original living space.

About

The artistic projects of Lydia Ourahmane (b.1992, Saïda, Algeria) often depart from events in her personal surroundings or from objects that carry a tension due to their social, political or economic significance. These objects provide the impetus for an in-depth examination of the way in which repeated histories of forced displacement and colonial oppression inscribe themselves upon individual lives, bodies and structures. The actual work takes the form of a video, performance, sculpture, sound piece or installation and is often has an experimental character.

The Arabic word ‘barzakh’ means ‘to be in limbo’, an ‘in-between state’ between life and death, the place where the spirits hide but also a physical location that offers protection. For this project, Ourahmane moved the entire contents of her flat in Algiers to Europe during the 2020 lockdown. Prevented from returning to Algeria due to an on-going artist’s residency, she made her ‘home’ come to her and transformed it into an installation. It was given the same surface area and layout as her original living space. In the exhibition, the artist’s interventions and unique circumstances ensure that the contents are transformed into an extremely complex, fragile environment, which releases its meanings slowly and in unexpected ways.

‘Barzakh’ was commissioned by Kunsthalle Basel and is a co-production of Kunsthalle Basel and @Triangle-Astérides, Centre d’art contemporain, Marseille. S.M.A.K. is the third stage of a journey that has taken ‘Barzakh’ from Basel to Marseille and Ghent.

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