Sasha Huber | VCA Art Forum 

The primary incentive for my artistic work has been the exploration of my Swiss-Haitian roots and identity via colonial history. This approach has broadened out considerably to include a range of histories and postcolonial realities. www.sashahuber.com
Sasha Huber’s work explores how colonial histories are imprinted into the landscape through naming and acts of remembrance-asking what actions it might take to repair the inherited traumas of history. Living and working in Helsinki, Finland, Huber addresses colonial and post-colonial relationships negotiated by African and Caribbean diasporas. She uses photography, moving image, site specific performance, landscape, research and collaboration to explore individual and collective performances of colonial-era pseudo-science, racial categorization, migration within the transatlantic slave trade, memorialization and transnational capitalism. Huber also usurps the staple gun, aware of its symbolic significance as a weapon, while offering the potential to renegotiate unequal power dynamics and the possibility of repair, symbolically stitching colonial wounds together.