Aicha Lark [exclusive]

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This series marked Lark’s American museum debut. Focusing on the ecological and cultural destruction in the Levant and North Africa, she created “soil paintings”—using dirt from seven different sacred sites mixed with gum arabic. The centerpiece, a portrait of an elderly olive tree with roots that spell out a Berber proverb, was acquired by the Smithsonian for its permanent collection. aicha lark

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Aïcha shook her head. “They’re waiting for something. A sign.” This series marked Lark’s American museum debut

You will rarely see a complete face in an Aicha Lark painting. Figures are shown in profile, with eyes missing, or turned away from the viewer. This is a deliberate philosophical move. “Identity is not a fixed photograph,” Lark explained in a 2022 interview with Artforum . “It is a series of ghosts.”