Sakhile&Me
www.sakhileandme.com
Oberlindau 7
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Partner gallery: Bode
Ghizlane Sahli, Niquu Eyeta
Ghizlane Sahli studied architecture at the École d'Architecture de Paris-Tolbiac and École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville before opening an embroidery workshop with local craftswomen in Marrakesh. In 2012, she co-founded the Zbel Manifesto collective, which is dedicated to working with waste and reused materials in its artistic practice. Her works are part of the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden in Marrakesh, the Fondation H in Paris, the Fondation Gandur in Geneva, and the Fondation Blachère in Apt.
Influenced by her understanding of space and architectural design, as well as her commitment to environmental sustainability, Sahli creates sculptures and installations from the tops of used plastic bottles covered with silk thread, a technique she refers to as "alveoli." Her inspiration is the human body, particularly the female body in its intimacy.
Niquu Eyeta is an interdisciplinary artist who works with textiles, ceramics, painting, and natural pigments and is currently studying at the Offenbach University of Art and Design. Her practice is based on slow material processes that focus on transformation, decay, and sensory experiences. Using these methods, her works deal with themes such as transience, ritual, and relationality, exploring the porous boundaries between body, landscape, and memory. "I work with materials as living carriers of memory and relationship," explains the artist. "I am drawn to the processes of decay and becoming, of life and death, in which forms shift between the human and the superhuman.
The work unfolds slowly, through coloring, shaping, listening, and responding. I am drawn to states of transition, where forms blur, dissolve, or refuse to be defined. My works are spaces where stories move between the personal and the collective. I understand material as an active agent, as something that moves, resists, and bears traces of care, violence, intimacy, and time. My installations and works often appear in a state of transition, of dissolution. In my work, I want to invite a physical encounter that goes beyond the visual, whether through smell, touch, taste, or sound. Rituals underlie both my creative process and the presentation of my work. I am interested in how the personal becomes a place of relationship, how we relate to others, human and superhuman beings."
