Latefa Wiersch: Hannibal
In the organizer's words:
Opening on Saturday, January 18, 2025, at 6 pm at the Dortmunder Kunstverein
The starting point for Latefa Wiersch's exhibition is the Hannibal II high-rise housing estate, where the artist grew up in Dortmund Dorstfeld in the 1980s/90s. Its architecture is not only the focus of her stop-motion film Original Features, but also becomes the expansive backdrop for roughly sewn together textile doll figures in the exhibition. In scenic arrangements, the dolls reflect post-migrant identities, are uncanny doppelgangers of the artist and her social environment - new beings with familiar attributes from pop culture and multiple references to contemporary history.
Latefa Wiersch's new performance, which will take place in the exhibition in April, thematizes the high-rise backdrop as a protective and threatening colossus and blurs the threshold between human bodies and dolls made of textile. The performance is part of the Dortmund Goes Black 2025 festival.
Latefa Wiersch (*1982 in Dortmund, lives in Zurich) works with sculpture, moving image and performance. She was a fellow at the Swiss Institute New York (2024), received the Swiss Art Award (2023) and the Swiss Performance Award (2022). The exhibition shows her work for the first time as part of an institutional solo exhibition in Germany.
Curated by Rebekka Seubert
Graphics by Ten Ten Team
PROGRAMME
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Film evening accompanying the exhibition
7 pm
Dortmunder Kunstverein: Guided tour through the exhibition
8 pm
Kino im U: Ali im Paradies - My Name Is Not Ali [OmeU], 92 min. Egypt, 2011, Director: Viola Shafik
While Rainer Werner Fassbinder received international acclaim for his anti-racist film 'Angst essen Seele auf' (Fear Eats the Soul), the character of the Arab guest worker Ali remains an enigmatic figure to this day. In her documentary ALI IM PARADIES, Viola Shafik sheds light on the biography of Moroccan El Hedi Ben Salem M'barek Mohammed Mustafa.
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Performance
As part of Schauspiel Dortmund's Dortmund Goes Black Festival 2025 , we are looking forward to a performance by Latefa Wiersch in the setting of the Hannibal, which has been partially reconstructed at the Dortmunder Kunstverein: together with performers, the artist will keep the puppets dancing in the threshold state between dead and alive, turning them into actors and inhabitants of the Hannibal, into contemporary witnesses and storytellers of a social utopia.
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