Sasha Huber, Rentyhorn - The Intervention. Video, 4:30 min. 2008. Photography by Siro Micheroli.
Sasha Huber was Te Whare Hēra’s International artist in residence for February - July 2015. Huber is a visual artist of Swiss-Haitian heritage, born in Zurich (Switzerland) in 1975, she currently lives in Helsinki (Finland). Huber’s creative practice spans a variety of media, including video, photography, performance-based interventions, and publications.
In this lecture, Huber presented her work on Swiss naturalist and proponent of scientific racism Louis Agassiz (1807-1873). Her project, Demounting Louis Agassiz, engages with geographical features which bear the Agassiz name. In the case of the “Agassizhorn” in Switzerland, Huber campaigned for the peak to be renamed. Aotearoa/New Zealand is also home to two of these landmarks; the Agassiz Glacier and Agassiz Range.
Sasha Huber has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including the 19th Biennale of Sydney in 2014, and has been invited to artist residencies in Brazil, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, and Australia. Huber holds an MA from the University of Art and Design Helsinki, and is currently undertaking doctoral research on racism through the lens of art at the Department of Art at Aalto University, Helsinki (Finland).