SOPHIE TAPPEINER at Art Basel Paris 2025
SOPHIE TAPPEINER at Art Basel Paris 2025
SOPHIE TAPPEINER at Art Basel Paris 2025
Jala Wahid, Methods of Escape, 2025, Fibreglass, polymerised plaster, aluminium, silk, leather, cherry stalks, wood, 200 x 163 x 38cm
Jala Wahid Methods of Escape, 2025, Fibreglass, polymerised plaster, aluminium, silk, leather, cherry stalks, wood, 200 x 163 x 38cm
Jala Wahid, Methods of Escape, 2025 (detail)
Jala Wahid, Methods of Escape, 2025 (detail)
Jala Wahid, Behind the Scenes, 2025, Bronze, polymerised plaster, stainless steel, wood, 32 x 35 x 35 cm
Jala Wahid, Behind the Scenes, 2025, Bronze, polymerised plaster, stainless steel, wood, 32 x 35 x 35 cm
Jala Wahid, Behind the Scenes, 2025 (detail)
SOPHIE TAPPEINER at Art Basel Paris 2025
Jala Wahid, Honeymoon, 2025, Polymerised plaster, 50 x 20 x 20 cm
Jala Wahid, Honeymoon, 2025 (detail)
Jala Wahid, Honeymoon, 2025 (detail)
Jala Wahid’s Stealth Technology presents a constellation of sculptural works that explore the entanglement of war, displacement, and intimacy. Drawing on personal histories of forced migration, Wahid examines how the technologies and aesthetics of military power—camouflage, surveillance, weaponised bodies—collide with rival forms of stealth and survival: love, memory and resilience.
Through her use of seductive materials and fractured forms, Wahid draws from emotive moments during her parents’ escape, challenging the violent machinations of military invasion. Here, tenderness, memory and endurance threaten the language of state violence.
In Stealth Technology, personal memory and the political are intimately entwined—revealing how histories of conflict are written not only in headlines, but onto bodies, relationships, and the textures of everyday life.
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