Mapping my Way To Traces of Belonging

Sasha Huber is a Helsinki-based internationally recognised visual artist of Swiss-Haitian heritage whose work explores the politics of memory, belonging, and care in relation to colonial legacies. Bridging history and the present, she engages with archival material through a layered practice spanning reparative interventions, film, photography, and collaboration. Known for using a staple gun—a tool symbolically resonant as both weapon and means of repair—it becomes a method of stitching together colonial wounds. Huber holds an MA in visual culture from Aalto University in Helsinki and is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD in artistic research at Zurich University of the Arts. From 2021 to 2024, her touring exhibition You Name It, organized by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto in collaboration with Autograph in London, marked a significant chapter in her ongoing international practice and was accompanied by a monograph of the same title, published by Mousse Publishing.

Thi My Lien Nguyen (1995, St. Gallen) is a Swiss artist and photographer of Vietnamese descent. Her multidisciplinary practice is grounded in memory, materiality, and the poetics of diaspora. Drawing from her Vietnamese heritage and lived experience navigating cultural borders, she works with photography, printmaking, moving image, performance, writing, and culinary activations. Food functions in her work both as medium and as site of inquiry — a space to negotiate questions of identity, migration, and collective memory. Working increasingly with analog and alternative photographic processes, she proposes slowness, materiality, and embodied practice as forms of resistance to extraction and erasure. 

Her work moves between documentary and personal narrative, drawing on traditions, rituals, and folklore to tell stories that resist linear time. Alongside her artistic practice, Nguyen is part of the curatorial team at Les Complices*, a self- organized off-space in Zurich creating platforms for queer, trans, inter, non-binary, women*, and BIPoC artists. Through culinary activations, workshops, and collaborative projects, she creates spaces of encounter grounded in care, solidarity, and mutual support. 

Her work has been shown at Kunstmuseum Thurgau (2025), Athens Photo Festival (2024), the 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil in São Paulo (2023), Museum Haus Konstruktiv Zürich (2023), Fotomuseum Winterthur (2022), and Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, Hanoi (2021). She has completed residencies in London and Vietnam, with upcoming residencies at MASEREEL Centrum voor Grafiek (Belgium) and Syros (Greece) in 2026.