Khadija Carroll

Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll is an Austrian-Australian (Melbourne, 1980) artist based in London and Vienna. Her practise is part gardener part pirate, currently spent inside sites of incarceration, making installations and performances in site-specific, complex ecosystems. These create interventions in situations where dislocation and conflict lay bare the historical relationships between humans and objects. Her montages of words and images voice alternate histories that explore how to intervene ethically and experimentally. Her installations and texts have been exhibited internationally including at the Marrakech and Venice Biennales, The Atlantic Project and Maritime Museum London. She is the author of the books Art in the Time of Colony (2014); The Importance of Being Anachronistic (2016), a forthcoming Sternberg publication on immigration detention Bordered Lives (2019), a forthcoming monograph on repatriation We have Never Been Pre-Modern for Chicago University Press, and Botanical Drift: Protagonists of the Invasive Herbarium (2017), an artist's history based on a series of interventions into the Economic Botany collection at Kew Gardens. Other texts that have focussed on the relationships between plants and power, botany and history, that have recently been published by Khadija appear in Theatrum Botanicum for Manifesta 12, and the Third Text journal, of which she is also an editor

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