MADRID.- Sabrina Amrani announced the incorporation of Alexandra Karakashian to the gallery’s roster of artists.

Alexandra Karakashian (b. 1988, Johannesburg) is a South African artist based in Cape Town, South Africa. Her work stems from her personal and family history and reflects on current issues of exile, migration and refugee-statues. Process and materiality is key to her practice. Employing used engine oil and salt as a medium for painting, she engages in ecological discussion, the threatening instability and subtle collapse; and the unethical seizing of rapidly dwindling natural resources, particularly on the resource-rich African continent. Furthermore she investigates notions of mourning – both of an individual and collective nature – and the lamentation of the loss of land and of those who have been ‘unhomed’.

Her work is part of private and public collections including the Iziko South African National Gallery in South Africa, the Spier Collection in South Africa, the Darvesh Collection in the UAE, The Royal Portfolio Collection, in South Africa, and the Luciano Benetton Collection in Italy.

Sabrina Amrani will present Alexandra Karakashian's work at ARCOmadrid in late Ferbuary, as well as in a solo exhibition at the gallery in April and in ARCOlisboa in May 2019. Karakashian will participate in the group exhibition Filling In The Gaps at the Iziko South African National Gallery in South Africa, from 15th February until 31st October and in the group exhibition Material Insanity at the MACAAL in Morocco, from 26th February until 22nd September.