Lydia Ourahmane at Kunsthalle Basel

A ransom, an illicit border crossing, an exchange of nationality: transactions of different sorts are often the conceptual starting point for Lydia Ourahmane’s art. The results encompass video, sound, performance, sculpture, and installation, exploring the way histories of displacement and colonial oppression are inscribed upon bodies. For her first exhibition in Switzerland, the Algerian-born artist presents a newly commissioned work, Barzakh.