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Latifa Echakhch was born in Morocco, moved with her family to France when she was three years old, and is now based in Switzerland. Her work is imbued with her personal sensibility and experiences. Echakhch’s installations are made of seemingly disparate, deteriorated elements, ruins, or relics. Never illustrative, their message is allegorical. She extracts the selected objects from any context in order to charge the resulting artworks with a global and multifaceted meaning.

‘Wind Wall Icon’ (2020) is a poetic composition from a group of works that the artist created together with the film ‘Partition pour Main et Masse’, which reveals a piano being brutally destroyed midsong. The golden paint that covers the rough concrete seems to have been weathered and eroded, as if by the wind referenced in the artwork title. The degradation could also have occurred through the vibrations emanating from the machine that destroys the instrument in the film, connecting the sensory experiences of seeing and hearing. Extracted from its initial context, the work nonetheless retains its rich meaning.

To create ‘Wind Wall Icon’, Echakhch covered the surface with a layer of red paint followed by a layer of gold paint, then tore off strips and pieces of the glittery surface to reveal the underlying Brutalist gray concrete. ‘Wind Wall Icon’ is also charged with historical references such as religious icons and Japanese screens. It reminds us that time is fragile, and intimate, precious moments such as those spent listening to classical music can be easily shattered.

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