Statement:

For her first major solo exhibition in Austria, artist Mahsa Aleph presents a continuation of her two long term projects Corpse and Remnants: Myth of House. 

Aleph’s artistic practice is characterized by an intensive engagement with fragments, debris and memories, along with endurance and resilience, the loss of home, and complex forms of cultural and geographical uprooting. 

Through this, she explores time, body, and places as interwoven entities. 

After the Corpse is part of the annual programme Under Pressure, curated by Bettina Siegele.

Mahsa Aleph is a Berlin-based installation artist who studied fine art at Tehran Academy of Fine Art. 

Her projects engage with classical Persian literature, which she reinterprets in physical form, as if transforming the abstract essence of words into something concrete and tangible. 

Her work focuses on existential questions about human identity and its nature, the relationship between any being and its environment. 

The “historical memory” of materials and objects is a key motif in her installations.