Sarah Benslimane (FR/DZ/CH, 1997)
Residency period: June 2025
A resident as part of a partnership with Nestlé and the laureate of the Nestlé Young Art Prize 2024, Sarah Benslimane (b. 1997) is a French-Algerian-Swiss artist and currently lives and works in Paris. Sarah Benslimane belongs to a generation of artists who live their lives completely within the rules of the Internet and her work reflects the overflow of information, history, images and styles, available all at once and at everyone’s fingertips.
Her sculptural paintings play tricks on the viewer’s expectations of reality, and seem to suggest clues in a puzzle that has exponentially grown out of control. Yet, referencing hard-edged Minimalism and the irony of NeoGeo, Benslimane’s paintings blast through preconceived notions of vulgarity, sweetness, the feminine and the now, creating a physical space where naiveté, rudeness, the joking and the serious, coexist in harmony.
Benslimane combines different elements, challenging the limits of painting, interrogating the status of the artwork, thus reflecting on its trivialization as a near object or even as an ornamental accessory, which could either belong to the domestic space or to the apparently distant strikingness of an institution’s white cube.