Anike Joyce Sadiq explores the vulnerable borders between the self and others. Her performative poetic yet minimalistic conceptual practice draws on the history of relational works and decolonial aesthetics; her installations involve video, sculpture, sound and music as well as text. Thereby questioning not only the idea of an autonomous artwork, but also the idea of an objective point of view and a sovereign self. They create ephemeral situations of alienation, intimacy, inclusion, and exclusion, unfolding the idea of an activated audience.
In her work “Visited by a Tiger”, Anike Joyce Sadiq takes the image of her own fist both as a symbol and as a starting point for rethinking the role of the psychological, neuro-biological self as part of the political struggle against oppression. The work is based on conversations with psychologist Dr Lula Morton Drewes that led the artist to questions about forms of embodied knowledge and to a re-engagement with image-making in and as politics.
