Latefa Wiersch (1982 in Dortmund, DE) lives and works in Zurich. She studied art at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Bern University of the Arts. Latefa Wiersch's installations and performances deal with questions of identity and the body in the post-colonial present. In order to investigate what it means to be human in our society, the artist often constructs clichéd images. The doll in particular is staged as an inanimate-animate counterpart. Another focus is satirically dedicated to themes of collective art production, institutional critique and the blending of the private and public as it appears in social networks. Latefa Wiersch won the Swiss Art Award 2023 and the Swiss Performance Art Award 2022 in collaboration with Rhoda Davids Abel and Dandara Modesto. She has received grants and prizes from the Canton of Zurich and the City of Zurich, among others, and was Artist in Residence 2024 at the Swiss Institute, New York City. In 2025 her exhibtion "Hannibal" at…