We are very proud to be present at photo basel for the second time. We are showing photography works by Choki Lindberg, Marleen Sleeuwits and Lola Keyezua. You can find us at stand no. 15.
Choki’s photographs depict the tragedy and beauty of decay. Her empty interiors are void of human presence, yet traces of its inhabitants become visible through the deserted objects decorating these places.
Marleen her photos do not offer a window to a world through which you look outside. Rather, it is the other way around: that other world comes to you and takes over the space without being asked. In this way she explores the boundaries between two- and three-dimensionality. Where a spatial object acquires a certain flatness, the flat surface of the photo increasingly takes shape. ‘’For me it’s all about the translation from space to photo and vice versa.’’ Marleen expose spaces, even fillet them and understand them bit by bit. And then it’s the spectator’s turn. By scanning the work for clues, he or she can get to grips with it. Only to get completely lost again in dizzying, repetitive reversals.
After graduating at the Royal Academy in The Hague in 2014, Lola Keyezua returned to Luanda, where she lived from 2015 to 2019. This offered her the opportunity to research black identity and the black body. The artist has explored several media through the years, such as sculptures, photography, painting and installations in a series of artworks which carefully exhibited Keyezua’s emotions and influences inspired by life in Angola/Africa. The female body continues to be the start of her creative process as a source of inspiration, seeking to portrait pain and her very own version of a female revolution.