Sonia Kacem

Central to Sonia Kacem's artistic work is her sensitivity to materials that she takes from our everyday consumer cycle: Among them are processed products of various kinds, some of them obtained from second-hand shops or online shops. Using these materials, the artist creates sculptural arrangements to play with our expectations regarding their function.

Her stagings allow for a variety of associations and refer to different periods of art. The influences of Minimal Art are as recognizable as those of the Italian Baroque or Arabic-Islamic art.

The jury was enthusiastic about Kacem's transcultural and transdisciplinary exploration of geometric abstraction because it broadens the perspective of constructive-concrete art. 

More info: https://www.hauskonstruktiv.ch/deCH/ausstellungen/vorschau/zurich-art-prize-2021-sonia-kacem.htm (in German)

Picture: Between the scenes, installation view, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, 2019-2020, Phooto: Thorsten Arendt