zêr
This installation “zêr” (which in Kurdish means gold) is what remains after the performance of the same name. The gold on display is an imitation that re-creates, piece for piece, the entirety of the artist’s inheritance from her mother. This is a collection that her mother has built up with her savings over the years. The artist will be due her inheritance on her wedding day or in the case of her parents’ death. In a gesture of resistance to this tradition and in order to symbolically lay claim to the gold without being married, the artist will wear these imitations on her body for two weeks, as would have been the custom were she actually marrying. They will be transferred from her body to this display at the opening of the exhibition.
Costume Design: Mona Eglsoer / Exhibited at Swiss Art Awards, Messe Basel / This work received the Kiefer Hablitzel Göhner Prize 2023
