We’re thrilled to be part of
@basel.social.club again this year!
There, we present two new works by Austrian artist
@angelikaloderer together with Berlin-based gallery
@contemporaryfinearts .
This year’s edition of Basel Social Club takes place on open-air farmlands behind Basel’s residential neighbourhood of Bruderholz, extending across approximately 50 hectors of land into Baselland - from the city border to the edge of the forest.
The two new sculptures presented draw from Loderer’s current exhibition ‘Soil Fictions’ at Belvedere 21 (Vienna) where she shows a site-specific installation that uses soil as the common ground, highlighting its ecological, economic, political, and cultural narratives.
An interest in the subterranean and the stories that lurk there, the tension between what is visible and what is hidden, what is ephemeral and what is permanent run like a thread through Loderer’s work. For her critical examination of the concept of sculpture with regard to form and authorship, the artist occasionally engages in a creative dialogue with non-human beings whose habitat is the earth: for her two aluminium sculptures presented here - Soil Fiction (1) (2024) and Soil Fiction (2) (2024) - the artist used abandoned mole tunnels as molds, rendering these negative spaces visible. The result of this creative process gives rise to a chance-driven and posthumanist coexistence of living beings.
Pictured here is:
Angelika Loderer, Soil Fiction (2), 2024, patinated aluminium, 123 x 162 x 25 cm.
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