‘Sasha Huber: You Name It’ at Autograph, London

Sasha Huber: YOU NAME IT’ is now open at Autograph, London. Open until the 23rd March 2023, the exhibition 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.

Bringing together over a decade of Huber’s work with the Swiss historian and activist Hans Fässler, the campaign seeks to redress the legacy of the Swiss-born glaciologist and racist Louis Agassiz (1807–1873). Agassiz commissioned J.T. Zealy (1812-1893) to photograph enslaved people on the Edgehill plantation in South Carolina in March of 1850, using the technology of photography to further his eugenics campaign. ‘YOU NAME IT’ readdresses these haunting daguerreotypes of enslaved, congolese people in an act of healing colonial and historical traumas. 

Tailoring Freedom – Renty and Delia, Sasha Huber, 2021. Metal staples on photograph on wood, 97 x 69 cm

Find out more about the exhibition and book your free tickets here.