selma kahoul

Selma Khadija Kahoul (*1996) is a swiss- kabylien artist. She studied Fine Arts in Freiburg and Basel under Hanna Weinberger, Alexandra Navratil and Claudia Müller. Kahouls objects, installations and videoper- formances are dealing with the connections between animal, plant life and the human body within the context of indigenous culture. She focuses on transitional processes like the process of birth, (temporary) death and moulting. Her works explore the field of tension between skinning as a natural act of liberation and skinning as a loss of identity and home, sometimes experienced violently. Particularly interesting are the simultaneities of opposites, the permeability and fluidity that emerge in these spaces of transition.

Which spatial structures enable and which inhibit our growth? What follows the mortality of our bodies?