Sasha Huber’s You Name It: Swiss-Haitian artist renegotiates colonial history in activist exhibition

By Darcy White, Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture, Sheffield Hallam University

In 2008, Sasha Huber, a Swiss-Haitian multimedia visual artist based in Finland, began a project to challenge the problematic legacy of Swiss-American glaciologist and natural scientist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873).

Agassiz was a devout creationist who lectured on his belief in racial segregation, defended slavery and propagated the unfounded idea that races were different species. These racist ideas have been dignified and normalised through the commemorative…

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