In the context of the exhibition "A Kind of Paradise – Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art"A conversation between the Swiss artist Sasha Huber and Bindi Vora, Senior Curator at Autograph Gallery, London, about the possibilities and limits of the healing power of art.
Sasha Huber (b. 1975, Switzerland)
is a Helsinki-based visual artist and researcher of Swiss-Haitian heritage who is currently pursuing a practice-based Ph.D. at Zurich University of the Arts. Her work, exploring the politics of memory, belonging, and care in relation to colonial legacies, bridges history and the present. Engaging with archival material through a layered practice spanning reparative interventions, film, photography, and collaboration, Huber’s use of a staple gun as both a symbol of pain and a method of mending colonial wounds has become her signature. Her touring exhibition, You Name It (The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, in collaboration with Autograph Gallery in London, 2021–24), marked a notable point in her ongoing international practice, with a monograph of the same title published by Mousse Publishing. Bindi Vora (b. 1991, UK)
is an interdisciplinary artist of Kenyan Indian heritage and Senior Curator at Autograph, London. In her artistic practice, she is interested in how ideas of resistance and resilience are shaped by our surroundings, histories, and lived experiences—often using collage to reflect the textures and pluralities of her diasporic identity. Since joining Autograph, she has curated several critically acclaimed exhibitions, most recently I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies (2025). Her writing has appeared in, among others, Another Country: British Documentary Photography Since 1945 (2022); Tate Dialogues 03: The 80s: Photographing Britain (2024); and British Journal of Photography. She is currently part of the working group “Climate and Colonialism” at the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art.
Photo: Sasha Huber photographed by Kai Kuusisto © Sasha Huber (left), Bindi Vora photographed by Zöe Maxwell © Bindi VoraLanguage: English
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Meeting point: in the exhibition space (Werner-Abegg auditorium, 2nd basement floor)
Notes
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