Curated for the third time by Stefanie Hessler, this year’s edition of Art Basel’s city-wide exhibition Parcours has as its theme, “conviviality”. It is a meditation on what Hessler describes as “the beauty of living together and of sharing space and time with other humans, but also the complexity and ruptures, especially in times of conflict and war”.
Spread across shop windows, churches, hotels, abandoned buildings and even Basel’s tram network, the exhibition examines how artists negotiate questions of community, ecology, labour, technology and public life. “It asks who has the ability define how we live together and how we use shared space,” Hessler says. We asked the curator to select seven works that encapsulate this year’s curatorial vision.
Ishi Glinsky
Bajour, Clarastrasse 10
Ishi Glinsky has made a sculpture in the shape of the mask from the Friday 13th horror movie franchise. The work subverts the trope of the “cursed Indian burial ground” in popular Western culture. It will be shown in the window of the Bajour media outlet, which is open for anyone to access and to speak to the journalists. Hessler liked the idea of showing the work in a place that was open to outside influence.