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Istituto Svizzero presents Atlas Studios, the first monographic exhibition in Italy by artist Latefa Wiersch (b. 1982, Dortmund, based in Zürich). Specifically designed for the spaces of Villa Maraini in Rome, the exhibition evokes the studios of the same name located at the edge of the Moroccan desert and often used by international film productions to recreate imperial antiquity sets.
Wiersch’s practice engages with popular culture, cinema, television and historical imagery, filtered through her perspective as a Germany-born artist of Amazigh and Arab descent. Moving between autobiography and fiction, her work raises questions of national and cultural belonging within a context where migration is a structural condition, staging history as an unstable field of projection, rehearsal and role-play. Her main body of work consists of sewn puppet figures that she iteratively re-engages and re-fashions in a plethora of figures drawn from pop culture, history or her own life.
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Istituto Svizzero presents Atlas Studios, the first monographic exhibition in Italy by artist Latefa Wiersch (b. 1982, Dortmund, based in Zürich). Specifically designed for the spaces of Villa Maraini in Rome, the exhibition evokes the studios of the same name located at the edge of the Moroccan desert and often used by international film productions to recreate imperial antiquity sets.
Wiersch’s practice engages with popular culture, cinema, television and historical imagery, filtered through her perspective as a Germany-born artist of Amazigh and Arab descent. Moving between autobiography and fiction, her work raises questions of national and cultural belonging within a context where migration is a structural condition, staging history as an unstable field of projection, rehearsal and role-play. Her main body of work consists of sewn puppet figures that she iteratively re-engages and re-fashions in a plethora of figures drawn from pop culture, history or her own life.
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