Zaineb Lassoued is an interdisciplinary artist navigating diasporic life between London and Switzerland. Her work critically engages with racialized structures, using speculative worlds to explore alternative imaginaries and ways of being. Through multimedia installations, she combines physical objects, video, soundscapes, and spoken word to confront dominant narratives and destabilize the exclusionary frameworks of the "modern world."
Drawing on research-based methodologies, Zaineb explores the positionality of the ‘Other’ and looks into hidden histories to reconfigure sites of erasure into spaces of reflection and transformation. By embracing failure, tension, and malfunction as conceptual tools, her work investigates moments of rupture—spaces where systemic frameworks falter and new possibilities emerge.
Her installations juxtapose contrasting elements—fabric and thread against mechanical movements, fragmented visuals paired with soundscapes—to evoke moments of disorientation and transformation, inviting audiences to imagine counter-worlds and alternative ways of being. Central to her practice is a commitment to dismantling binaries such as human and subhuman, presence and absence, and visibility and invisibility, crafting works that question hegemonic structures and offer space for other possible realities.
Through material experimentation and hybrid forms, Zaineb interrogates systems of visibility, control, and resistance. Her installations evoke the resilience and defiance of hybridity, transforming alienation into a space for collective imagining and renewal.
A graduate of the Royal College of Art (2024), Zaineb has exhibited her work in events such as M-A (A Space Between), including a performance held at David Zwirner’s London gallery, and in experimental venues like Hotel Tiger, Zürich. Collaboration and transdisciplinary exchange are core to her artistic approach. She actively seeks partnerships with practitioners from diverse fields to expand the boundaries of her thinking. Her practice continues to evolve as she delves into material resistance, inter-subjectivity, and the speculative potential of alternative futures.
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