Latefa Wiersch’s (b. 1982 in Dortmund, Germany. Lives and works in Zurich) installations and performances deal with social questions around identity and the body in the postcolonial present. Investigating what it means to be human, she often constructs clichéd images, using the doll as an exemplary inanimate object. Wiersch is also dedicated to topics of collective art production and institutional critique as well as the blurring of private and public spaces animated by social media. Her work has been shown at the Centre culturel suisse et la Ménagerie de verre, Paris (2024), Kunsthaus Zürich (2024), Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva, Switzerland (2022), Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland (2022, 2018), Kunstmuseum Luzern (2022), Fondazione Sant’Elia / Istituto Svizzero, Palermo (2022), Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland (2019, 2021), Swiss Art Awards (2023, 2021), Shedhalle Zürich (2018), Dortmunder U, Germany (2015) among others. Wiersch won the Swiss Art Award in 2023 and the Swiss Performance Art Award in 2022 in collaboration with Rhoda Davids Abel and Dandara Modesto.