Sarah Benslimane belongs to a generation of artists who live their lives completely within the rules of the Internet and her work reflects the overflow of information, history, images and styles, available all at once and at everyone’s fingertips. Her sculptural paintings play tricks on the viewer’s expectations of reality, and seem to suggest clues in a puzzle that has exponentially grown out of control. Yet, referencing hard-edged Minimalism and the irony of NeoGeo, Benslimane's paintings blast through preconceived notions of vulgarity, sweetness, the feminine and the now, creating a physical space where naiveté, rudeness, the joking and the serious, coexist in harmony. Benslimane combines different elements, challenging the limits of painting, interrogating the status of the artwork thus reflecting on its trivialization as a near object or even as an ornamental accessory, which could either belong to the domestic space or to the apparently distant strikingness of an institution’s white cube.
Sarah Benslimane is a French-Algerian-Swiss artist, and was born in 1997, and currently lives and works in Geneva. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Art at HEAD-Geneva and is currently finishing her master’s at the same institution.
Benslimane had her first institutional solo exhibition at the Centre d’Art Contemporain of Geneva in 2022. Her work has also been shown in Tunnel Tunnel, Lausanne (solo show), Friart - Kunsthalle Fribourg, Chemical X, Cherish, Geneva (all 2022) and Karma International, Zurich (2021).
Lollipop Geometry. Sarah Benslimane: New Works 2023, Contemporânea, 2023
Première expo institutionnelle pour Sarah Benslimane, EPIC Magazine, December 2022
“Nour El Ain (نور العين)” Karma International / Zurich, Flash Art, March 2021
Installation view at Madragoa, Lisbon
May 24th - July 15th 2023
Installation view at Madragoa, Lisbon
May 24th - July 15th 2023
Installation view at Madragoa, Lisbon
May 24th - July 15th 2023
Dreamstime
Installation view at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Genève, Switzerland
October 15th 2022 - January 8th 2023
Dreamstime
Installation view at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Genève, Switzerland
October 15th 2022 - January 8th 2023
Dreamstime
Installation view at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Genève, Switzerland
October 15th 2022 - January 8th 2023
La Réforme de Pookie
Installation view at Friart, Fribourg, Switzerland
February 19th - May 8h, 2022
The Way We Trust
Installation view at Tunnel Tunnel, Lausanne, Switzerland
March 10th – April 24th, 2022
The Way We Trust
Installation view at Tunnel Tunnel, Lausanne, Switzerland
March 10th – April 24th, 2022
The Way We Trust
Installation view at Tunnel Tunnel, Lausanne, Switzerland
March 10th – April 24th, 2022
Installation view at Graduation Show, HEAD Genève, Genève, Switzerland
2021
Installation view at Graduation Show, HEAD Genève, Genève, Switzerland
2021
Nour el Aïn
Installation view at Karma International, Zürich, Switzerland
February 6th - March 13th 2021