Unlimited & Parcours
Martha Rosler began Body Beautiful, or Beauty Knows No Pain in the mid-1960s and continued the series until 1972. She constructed these collages from glossy print ads and fashion magazines, reassembling them in various states of fragmentation to produce a poignant and effective criticism of the external pressures and fantasies projected on woman. For the first time, the original collages from this series are shown alongside their accompanying photomontages, giving a critical look into the artist’s process.
Tiona Nekkia McClodden will present a new, performative work in response to Chris Marker’s short film, La Jetee (1962), which stars actor Davos Hanich who misidentifies an object of Ogun, the Yoruba god of war and iron. In a defiant act to counter cinematic erasure, McClodden will place her Achaba de Ogun on view alongside a 1960s painting by Hanich the basement of the oldest Blacksmith shop in Basel surrounded by iron and steel. Over the course of five days, the arrangement of the Achaba and painting will change.