Latifa Echakhch : Stories Written. Zurich Art Prize Winners 2007–2023

Museum Haus Konstruktiv
The exhibition Stories Written – Zurich Art Prize Winners 2007–2023 honors the long-standing partnership between Museum Haus Konstruktiv and Zurich Insurance Company Ltd. This group show presents selected works by previous winners of the renowned Zurich Art Prize.
 
A multi-part work by Latifa Echakhch (born in 1974 in Morocco, lives and works in Vevey) is presented. The four large-format paintings titled Last Black (2024) were created using a décollage technique. This involved applying a thin layer of concrete to the canvases, then painting over them with black acrylic paint. By means of a palette knife, the artist gradually removed parts of the hardened monochrome coating, thus exposing more and more of the (now gray) canvas from picture to picture. The dark patterns that remain are astonishingly delicate and of an almost organic quality. They have a fascinating relationship with the act of forceful removal, which has inscribed itself into the fabric as signs of scratching and scraping. Somewhat unlike other works from the same series, in which figurative fragments of painted subjects based on photographs can be recognized, Last Black brings the material and the procedure itself to the fore. In four parts, the presence and absence, or visibility and invisibility, of canvas, concrete and paint tell of the process of creation and destruction, which plays a central role in Latifa Echakhch’s artwork, both technically and thematically.
 
Curated by Sabine Schaschl, Evelyne Bucher, Eliza Lips
 
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May 30, 2024 - September 9, 2024
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