Ausstellung: Rachel Khedoori

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Opening: November 1, 2025, 6 pm

Exhibition duration: November 2, 2025 - January 11, 2026

Zurich-based artist Rachel Khedoori, whose works combine installation, sculpture, film and photography, presents new and recent works from her sculptural oeuvre in dialog with some older works. These include the early 16-mm film installation Pink Room.
Some of the works consist of fragile supports such as paper covered with coloured, encaustic layers and stabilized with resin; others are made of materials such as bronze, aluminium or plaster. They evoke dreamlike views of fragmented spaces and architectures that appear in various stages of collapse and decay; others refer to forms, apparatuses and processes of seeing, thus negotiating the complex relationship between image production and the construction of reality.

Khedoori's new compositions are not detached from reality in space, but are characterized by an atmosphere that can hardly be separated from the political present in which they are created. Their fragility evokes ideas that extend beyond the exhibition setting - damaged facades, interrupted infrastructures, orders that are beginning to totter. Such associations do not impose themselves as assertions, but arise from the form of the works. In the artist's oeuvre, her early "Iraq Book Project" (2003-2010) provides a possible clue: over several years, Khedoori collected press reports from Western and Arab sources on the Iraq war, archived them in the form of over 80 bound volumes and thus confronted the impossibility of a coherent narrative by means of a radically material setting. Here, too, there is no interpretation, no symbolism, just an order that makes breaks visible. The new group of works is quieter, more sensual - but not apolitical. It does not ask about concrete events, but allows structural shocks to become an aesthetic method.

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Opening on November 1, 2025, 6 pm

Exhibition runs from 2 November 2025 to 11 January 2026

Zurich-based artist Rachel Khedoori, whose work merges installation, sculpture, film, and photography, will show new and recent pieces from her sculptural practice alongside selected earlier works. Among the sculptural presentations is an early 16mm film installation, Pink Room.
Working with fragile substrates such as paper stabilized with resin and coated with colored encaustic, as well as other materials such as bronze, aluminum, and plaster, the works evoke oneiric views of fragmented spaces and architectures that appear to be in various stages of collapse and decay; others refer to forms, apparatuses, and processes of seeing that negotiate the relationship between image production and the construction of reality.

Khedoori's new compositions do not appear as autonomous set pieces, but are characterized by an atmosphere that is almost inseparable from the political present in which they are created. Their fragility evokes associations that go beyond the context of the exhibition-damaged facades, disrupted infrastructures, faltering orders. These associations do not impose themselves as assertions, but arise from the form of the works. Within the artist's oeuvre, her early 'Iraq Book Project' (2003-2010) offers a possible clue: over several years, Khedoori collected press reports on the Iraq War from Western and Arab sources, archived them in more than eighty bound volumes, and thus confronted the impossibility of a coherent narrative with a radically material proposal. Here, too, there is no exegesis, no symbolism, but merely an order that makes breaks visible. The new work is calmer, more sensual-but not apolitical. It does not deal with concrete events, but allows structural upheavals to function as an aesthetic method.