Latefa Wiersch lives and works in Berlin and Leipzig.
Her work is about the ephemerality of the body. Found pieces of furniture and objects which relate to the human body are transformed into hybrid sounding boxes overgrown with soft garments. They inspire feelings that fluctuate between intimacy and distance. The second hand objects bear traces of their past user in the shape of holes, marks, scratches, spots. By going into the installations, and thus becoming a part of their composition, the viewer inadvertently is framed as an intruder of the private realm of a person, who is absent, but whose life has been left behind for everyone to see.
After studying musicology and literature at the Ruhr-University Bochum Latefa Wiersch graduated a Design course (Diploma) from the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld in 2006 and a Diploma in Fine Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2011.
She recently exhibited at Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Skulpturenpark Berlin-Zentrum, Kunstsammlungen Augsburg, Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen, Galerie Live in Your Head, Genf and Kunsthalle Bielefeld.
Apart from her individual work she is also involved in collaborative projects and exhibitions in Berlin.
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