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Survival Strategy, 2025
Sodium hypochlorite on cotton fabric (EtaProof)
140 × 239 cm
Unique piece
Photos: Laura Giana Binggeli



Survival Strategy

















exhibited in 
Disequilibrium, Cabane B, Bern, 2025
The sentence Migration is the most vital survival strategy appears as a bleached inscription on dark, water-resistant textile. Originally developed for military use in the 1930s and manufactured in Switzerland since the late 1990s, the fabric (EtaProof) is designed to repel water and resist external influence, yet here, it has been altered through a slow and deliberate act of bleaching. The fabric’s resistance to absorption makes the bleaching process an act of contradiction: a mark is left where nothing is meant to enter. This tension between material and message becomes central to the work.

Made from several individual fabric pieces sewn together, the work emphasizes material fragmentation and reassembly as both a visual and conceptual gesture. The sentence, written in English, reflects the artist’s engagement with transnational narratives, diasporic memory, and the urgency of legibility across borders. Using English, a lingua franca of migration and activism, extends the reach of the statement beyond specific geographies, while echoing the artist’s own navigation between languages and cultural identities.

Through its material, language, and construction, the work offers a quiet but insistent reflection on movement as necessity, not anomaly, and on survival as a shared human imperative.

Detail Survival Strategy
Detail Survival Strategy
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