of existence and non-existence, bringing us together
with so many commonalities despite our differences
and many variations on our paths in life. Supposedly
optimal solutions have been brought forward by
many bright minds. Despite this we came to agrinding halt in so many arenas, for longer periods oftime. This public health matter is the backbone forour socio-economically driven souls and cannot be
uncoupled and treated in isolation from many aspectsof our lives.
Mother Earth has been calling and pleading for ourattentions, reactions, observations, corrections andmindfulness. Mother Earth has been screaming andshouting out loud from the supposed clearer watersof Venice to the smog ridden metropolises and theflaming visualisations emanating from the capital of
the world's largest democracy in Delhi. This weaponof mass destruction cannot be found in a hole in the
ground and operates with the utmost of stealthachieving wide-reaching penetrance, in so many
corners of the globe. Whether we want to run or hide
we are obliged to experience this BIG humancorrection (like on the stock market) and have been
forced to be massively mindful and patient.

Mother Earth Calling
22nd October7th November 2021
Salon Mondial, Baselwww.ramski.net
Mother Earth Calling Art Exhibition is a Global-LocalCommunity collaboration between artists who
travelled from far and wide to extend their art
practice in Basel from Atelier Mondial, alongside our
local artists from the region and from the House Oslo
Ateliers Cooperative. Working closely with local andglobal communities within this epic period of
pandemic lockdowns and isolations, due to therampant spread of virus’ has brought forth awonderful collection of artworks.
The vision of this project has become highly Covid
relevant as we are undeniably still in the midst of thepandemic. It highlights the machinations and innerworkings of humanity, apparent in many ways atindividual, group and country levels leading to a fullblown worldwide cataclysm ! Willingly and unwillingly
we have had to accept different and dynamic states

Mother Earth Calling, brings together declarations,lamentations, primal screams, loud and quiet,
interrupted or flowing, in all their shapes and forms.
Displaying free expressions from painting, drawing,creative writing, sculptures, installations andperformances. For international participants, unable
to travel, artworks have been made possible in theelectronic form. A display of a masala (mix) ofexpressions, showing a vivid collection of global andlocal art, interwoven with community action, presence
and spirit.
The works shown are expressed in varying media
including poetry, paintings, drawings, video
installations, sculptures and performance.
Workshops will be held in English and in German,
with cross language translations where needed.
Many thanks to Atelier Mondial, Alexandra Stäheli,
CMS Genossenschaft Oslo Ateliers, Bruno Steiner for
screens and film equipment, Yota Tsotra and Andreas
Schneider for their professional mentoring andsupport. Also a big thanks to all the amazing artists
and helpers that assisted in setting up the exhibition
and Noë Salinas for photography.

Artists and their work
http://ramski.net/
MotherEarthCalling_EN.html

1Belén Romero Gunset
Installation

Belén Romero Gunset was born in Tucumán, Argentina
in 1983. At an early age she joined a group of
puppeteers together with her mother and sister.

During her Residency in Atelier Mondial (April-Junes
2021) she made a performance with an
installation, quite similar to this one, the performancewas 44 hours long, in which she asked the public,‘What is a Machine ?’ She collected all the answers on
a big sheet of paper, later processing this information
to create data for her project of Artificial Intelligence,
which aims to create a machine with the capacity tophilosophise. Her conclusion of that performance isthat "Machines are Machines" and in this video, you
may see an example and explanation of that
conclusion.

Price: Not for sale2

Since 2003 to 2010 she has formed several
performance groups in Tucumán.
In 2010 she graduated in Arts in the University of
Tucumán and moved to Buenos Aires to participate in
the Artist Program of Di Tella University.
Her performances, painting, installation and videos are
exhibited in museums, art spaces, art galleries inArgentina, she received many awardeds and her work
is part of some public and private collections inArgentina.
In 2021 she participated in the exchange program
between URRA (Buenos Aires) and Atelier Mondial asa resident in Basel (April-June) and in "Doce en
Diciembre Basel Edition", another exchange programwith artists from South America and Switzerland in
Kasko, Basel (October).
Her work is a continuous lifelong process, which is
depicted as a threshold between performance andphilosophy, and a process which she can accompany
with systems and diagrams, installations, drawings,
paintings, texts, sculptures and videos.

Title: What is a Machine? # 2
Material: obsolete machines, screen, lightand plastic sheets.

Description: Video Installation

Brendhan Dickerson

Performance and Sculpture
Born in Johannesburg. Living in Basel, Switzerland.
Brendhan Dickerson has a masters degree in sculpture
from the University of Cape Town.
He has worked primarily in wrought iron, often in
combination with wood or bronze. The intense, almost
alchemical process of transforming metal in its
malleable heated state, resonates with his quest for
inner transmutation.
Although he often seeks to articulate lyrical, ironic orsatirical perspectives through his work, it is his
perception of sculpture as fundamentally performativethat drives his formal choices and animates hispractice.
In the 1990s, in parallel with his studio work, he began
an exploration of performative Fire- Sculpture. For
him, there is something atavistic about fire-sculpture,something primal and fascinating in its immediacy andtransience. Ephemeral and irretrievable, it is acounterpoint to the permanence of iron and bronze
sculpture.
In recent years he has immersed himself more deeplyPerformance
1. Title: Awakening Gaia’s Furies
Material: Performance with fire-sculpture
Description: The bronze and wrought-ironsculpture Awakening Gaia’s Furies and the firesculpture which will form part of the opening
ceremony, are the first in this series.
In the face of our pathological inertia, evenindifference around change to mitigate climatechange, perhaps new, or renewed archetypes areneeded to articulate the contrition and guilt andincandescent fury too - which we, as those who havedespoiled the earth, should be feeling en-mass at the
on-going desecration of mother earth.

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Dawn Nilo
Installation

Dawn’s work is inspired by the archetypes of thealchemist and the fool, exploring the opposites ofknowing and not knowing as intelligent absurd
naiveté. She writes poems in words performances andvisual art that play between the simpleton-jester-clown
and the disciplined practitioner of The Great Work.

I have been thinking a lot about the Furies, that groupof enraged Greek goddesses, daughters of Gaea
( Gaia) the earth mother, who seek out and punish sin
and transgression against her.

This work includes words, geometric drawings,
cyanotype prints, paintings, videos and installations.
Her solo interactive and group performances focus on
the precise execution of pure raw and improvised play.

I imagine the awakening again of Gaia’s Furies in non-Some excerpts from Dawn’s career include a
nomination for the Swiss Art Award (2020) and Swiss
Performance Art Award (2017).

human form, as animal superheroes who wreak havoc
to punish and destroy the perpetrators of ecocide.
The bronze and wrought-iron sculpture Awakening
Gaia’s Furies and the fire-sculpture which will form partof the opening ceremony, are the first in this series.

Price: upon request

Sculpture
1. Title: Elephant and Leaves
Material: Bronze and wrought-iron
Description: Elephant and Leaves
Price: on request
2. Title: Orangutan
Material: Bronze and wrought-iron
Description: Orangutan, set on fire as part of the
opening ceremony performance

Price: on request

www.dawnnilo.com

Title: "Nein Nein Ja Nein Ja"
Material: Paper voter’s pamphlet, wooden framewith glass, 300 x 415mm

Description:

National Referendum of the Swiss Confederation,
June 13, 2021
The Federal Council and Parliament recommend
voting as follows on June 13, 2021:
NO People’s initiative for clean drinking water andhealthy food
NO People’s initiative “for a Switzerland without
synthetic pesticides”
YES Covid-19-Law
YES CO2-Law
YES Federal law on police measures to combat
terrorism (PMT)
Notes from the Federal Council. Published by thefederal Chancellery. Press date: May 5, 2021

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Deneth Piumakshi Wedaarachchige
Video and Installation

Deneth was born in 1980 and is a multidisciplinary
artist from Sri Lanka and living in the French Alps. She
started her first education in arts at home with herfather and later studied in Nepal and in Sri Lanka.
She uses textile, sound, video, photography andperformances in her artistic practice. The subject
Deneth's work focuses on are forgotten colonial
histories, the Sri Lankan diaspora, identity, womenimmigrant workers and women and children in war
zones. Her artistic practice runs along a thin line that
separates art and activism; she intends to play withthat tension. For Mother Earth, Deneth is focusing on
the “age of the pandemic” and finding ways to adapt
to a new world.

1. Title: ‘Welcome to whatever happened next...’Material: 12 minutes - 2021
Description: The world of uncertainty that we areliving in today, unable to go back to my motherland
and never ending and always changing COVID rules
has inspired me to make this video collage. COVID
pandemic is dividing us, separating us from ourfamilies and loved ones from near and far. It iscategorising us within the society, it controls andleaves us in an unknown place. It changes us, oursociety and ways of living. Power of nature makes us
adapt and keep moving forward in our own ways fromhere to a new world of uncertainty.
Poem
How it is you are who you are & I am someone else
Right here before you
Let’s postpone tomorrow
So the roads will be open again
And we will have freedom
Together we will escape
From this story
And dream of a happy planet with a second chance!

Price: Upon request

2. Title: ‘My Mother’s Virtual Diary’
Material: 12 minutes - 2021
Description: Sri Lanka was going through a forth
lockdown and my mother was again isolated. I
imagined living with her virtually during this difficult
time and keeping her occupied daily. ThroughWhatsApp she created a video diary by recording herdaily routine and her feeling.

Price: Upon request
3. Title: Project Me and my garbage _ Mother andChild’

Material: 5.08 minutes - 2019
Description: 2019 in Sri Lanka I was traveling to doa research project, following the scientific expedition
by Swiss naturalist, Sarasin cousin brothers in 1883. My
focus was to stop on each village as they stopped anddocument the environmental changes. Sarasins were
hunting many elephants in search of elephant embryo
but they were left with none. One of the areas they
had visited in 1883 had become a protected Nature
reservoir. With a development project built by Chinesecompany, a village was disappeared and relocate next
to the Nature reservoirs. The collected daily wastefrom the village is dumped on this nature reservoir.
Unfortunately it had turned into a large garbage spot
where elephants came to search for food. The
Elephant mother and child were often coming to eat
garbage that is wrapped in plastic bags.
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/596680866

Price: Upon request

…Deneth Piumakshi Wedaarachchige
Video and Installation
4. Title: ‘Nature war’
Material: a dead bee and a real ancient gun bullet –2017

Description:
Bees are tiny that we rarely notice them, but they are
the most efficient, being responsible for 80% of theprocess of building our ecosystem.
The numbers of dead bees are rising today caused bya toxic agricultural pesticide used in the fields andgardens. To feed growing populations & in highdemand for more honey, the hard-working bees are
selected and genetically modified and copied tobreed more hard-working bees. This is a man's war
against nature.

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Dorothea Rust
Photography

Dorothea Rust aka DoroR practices wild inclusion of
performative and somatic practices in trans-local andcontinental contexts, sometimes channelling this into
performances, photographic works, videos andinstallations, sometimes writing to/about performative
practices and otherness, sometimes organisingprojects that bring artists* and others.x together.
www.dorothearust.ch

Courtesy the artist and Gandy gallery.

Prices: 1200 CHF
Title: the bird can’t sleep 3
Material: Image work shot with iPhone, inkjet-print
5. Title: Tree of life
Material: Acrylic on Cheetha textile. 150 x 80 cm.
Description:
Courtesy the artist and Gandy gallery. 2011

Prices: 2000 CHF

6. Title: The Man I know
Material: Mix media on canvas, 9 individual pieces
30 x 30cm. can be put together as one.

Description:

Courtesy the artist and Gandy gallery. 2012

Prices: 900 CHF

on matt archival paper

Description: ... walking through the forest ... a bird
sprayed in poison-green paint on a tree trunk jumps
into my retina ... then the sentence DER VOGEL
KANN NICHT (MEHR) SCHLAFEN - the bird can’t
sleep (anymore) -, which I had written a long time ago,comes into my hands ... from then on I turn todissimilar things like trees ... together we practise
otherness in being close to each other ... exchange
genetic information about skin and tree bark ...
together we retrieve the fictitious to describe the real…

Price: upon request

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Eva Bornerbring us closer to the difficult and often gruelling
reality of those affected.
„Borner’s installation works present as aestheticallysubtle, emotionally touching and socially relevant
contemporary projects. They are at the same time
immensely tender and profound.“Photography

Eva Borner, born in Switzerland, lives and works inmany places.
She studied media art at the University of Applied
Sciences Northwestern Switzerland in Aarau andreceived her diploma with distinction in 2003.
She works in the field of video installation and sound,and also with photography and objects. Exhibitions at
national and international level show her current work.
She has received numerous awards and grants.
Exhibition participation at the 6th Thessaloniki
Biennale, in France for the Lectoure Summer
Photography Festival, as well as in Sedan (F), at the
Spinnerei/Werkschau in Leipzig, Kunsthalle Wil,
Northwest University Museum, Xian (China) and in
Pafos (Cyprus) for the European Capital of Culture Year2017, frac Alsace and Museum Maxxi in Rome- toname just a few stations.
Her residencies include Swatch Art Peace Hotel
Shanghai, LIA in Leipzig, Cité Internationale des Arts
Paris, Goethe Institut Thessaloniki, Centre forContemporary Art NAIRS in Engadin, and the Atelier
Mondiale Basel awarded her a travel grant to Greece
two years ago.
In her artistic work, Eva Borner engages with thequestion of the presence of absence. She brings
experiences that have shaped her personally into awider context and pursues the concept of home inmultifaceted ways. Borner’s media art is not only
distinguishable due to its interaction with other areas
such as film, photography, sculpture, music or dance.
It is touching because it always aims to link technicalmedia and a concrete vision. It emerges from thedirect confrontation with its environment, whether
through encounters with people or by addressing
political and social circumstances.
Her works awaken memories and associations in theviewer in a poetic or narrative way. In impressive
video, sound and object installations she gives'speechless' people a voice, the physical absence ofthe protagonists being characteristic of their work.
Voyeuristic looking is far from the artist's intention;rather, through her cautious stagings, she wants toTitle: Erzähl mir Meer
Material: Photography 2021
Description:
On a breakwater, the spray, darkened by the pollution,splashes up. It looks like a furious and desperate
uprising of the sea in the face of the mountain of
rubbish made of pet bottles that has washed ashore.
Every year, an estimated 4.8 to 12.7 million tonnes ofplastic waste ends up in the oceans. From plastic bags
to bathing ducks, most of the waste we produce onland eventually ends up in the sea. The photograph"Tell me about the sea" by artist Eva Borner is a call to
pay attention and listen to the needs of nature especially the sea. The multi-layered title relates thework to, among other things, the "Mother Earth
Movement", which campaigns for individual
ecosystems to be recognised as legal entities and thus
be able to sue against pollution or threatening
projects.
October 2021, Eveline Schüep

Price: upon request

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Irene Maag

Ishita Chakraborty

Installation

Installation and Performance

Irene Maag works in the fields of performance
installation/intervention cultural policy and as anindependent art mediator. In both her artistic and art
mediating work, she likes to generate new meaningand options of ways of thinking. With playfully
irritating actions, new realities are developed. Thus
she works alone, collaboratively or in participation withothers - preferably site-specific and with everyday
materials - on public social and virtual space. With art
as art mediation or strategy, new offers of experienceand possibilities for action are created and supposed
realities are redefined. Irene Maag has been
represented with personal and collective works at
performance festivals and exhibitions in Switzerland
and internationally since 1998. In 2014, she wasawarded the Canton Basellandschaft Art Prize (Culture
Prize) for her artistic work. She is a co-founder ofseveral collectives, including the performance group
GABI (1998 - 2005), the performance group Kollabor(first called LABOR) in 2005, as well as the culturally
politically active association Kultur Baselland, which
she co-presided from its founding in 2016 until 2019and now manages.Between 2001 and 2009, Irene
Maag was active on the board of the
Kaskadenkondensator Basel as a curator and project
initiator. Since 1996, she has created various art
education formats with children, young people, adults,
disabled people and mentally unstable people.

Ishita Chakraborty (b. 1989) is an artist and poet bornin West Bengal India. She lives and works between
Switzerland and India. Chakraborty's artistic practiceentails scratched drawings installations poetry
performance and sound. She investigates thestrategies and the discourse of resistance narrated byindividuals—often the subalterns. Their contexts aremarked by the traces of displacement the trauma ofcolonialism their articulation in language oral history
and identity. Chakraborty is represented by Gallery
Espace New Delhi India. She has received her MFA
degree in 2021 from ZHdk (Zurich University of theArts, Switzerland) and another MFA in 2013 from
Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata. She taught Fine
Arts as an assistant professor at Amity University
Kolkata (2016-2018).
Her recent and upcomingshows include Auswahl 21 in Kunsthaus Aarau
LifeLines at Johann Jacobs Museum Zurich (2021)
curated by Roger M. Buergel and Francesca
Ceccherini Hermes Trismegistos Dreams of Futures
within Futures (While Zhuang Zhou Eats a Butterfly) at
Die Diele (2021) in Zurich curated by Damian
Christinger Mother Earth Calling in Atelier
Mondial(2021) in Basel Switzerland 5th International
Biennale de Casablanca in Morocco (2022) curated by
Christine Eyene. She recently had her solo exhibitionsin Keinraum in Luzern Switzerland(2021) Prameya Art
Foundation New Delhi India (2020) Museum Forum
Schlossplatz in Switzerland (2017). She has
participated in 'Abstract Notations' at Gallery Espacein New Delhi (2020) Small Projects for Coming
Communities Stuttgart Germany and Oncurating
Project Space (2019) Zurich What Leaf? What
Mushrooms? in Art Container Zurich (2019) Art forpeace in Kunsthaus Zofingen in Switzerland (2017).
She has won a number of awards including Visiting
Artist Fellowship at Lakhshmi Mitaal SAI HARVARD
UNIVERSITY (2020) ZHdK Avina Foundation in
Switzerland (2020) and Research Grant from Aargauer
Kuratorium in Switzerland(2021). Chakraborty wasawarded Gästeatelier Krone residency in Switzerland(2017) and Piramal Museum of Art residency in
Mumbai India (2015).

Title: Ashes
Material: Ashes
Description: Art installation created fromperformance.

Price: upon request

…Ishita Chakraborty
She has presented artist talks in Beletage
AarauSwitzerland (2021) KHOJ PEERS Residency New
Delhi India (2018) Culture Clash in Dock Basel
Switzerland(2017) Rajya Charukala Parishad in Kolkata(2017) and Museum Forum Schloss Platz Aarau
Switzerland (2017).

Title: EUROPA
Material: Fired unglazed different ceramic clays,
Size: variable, 2700 until today, 2019 ongoing.

Description:
Performative installation organically ‘grown’;
influenced by the placement of other artworks in the
exhibition.
Europa is a large-scale sculptural installation thatinvolves a community-based participatory workshop. It
explores the themes of migration citizenship raceinclusion and Ecology of care. In this work existential
questions of human life morph into ecological ones.
Ishita imagines each human being is like a mushroom;
diverse and individual but interconnected throughdifferent roots as hair-like fungal threads called
Hyphae. Like fungi stitches different organisms into
relation. Here she draws the concept of relation in
Édouard Glissant's work where he describes relation asa point of departure of a model of communication a
way to communicate with others in the impossibility of
the unity of origins and history. The relation is aconnection that articulates past and present in thehuman identity. Ishita imagines the migrants are
stretching all over the world while interweaving themulticulturism, exchanging ideas in a new society. Bychoosing different earths and the firing process
mushrooms of different colours are created. For Ishita,
these different hues represent the different human skintones - they give her a sense of diversity amongpeople much like an ecosystem. The European
classification of cultural differences such as skin colorand hair texture were not only important in the past
but still relevant today and has not been overcome.
This project asks questions about our coexistence andthe conflicts between citizens and refugees. The racial
discrimination kept the people in separate boxes
rather than celebrating diversity. So Ishita’s mushroom
project Europa is an attempt to make the others in a
Eurocentric society visible. A few years ago she moved

from India to Switzerland. As an immigrant, a largepart of her assimilation and integration consisted oflanguage training. She developed this project inparallel with her German courses at the Autonomous
School in Zurich. There she had the opportunity tomeet many other immigrants and refugees and listen
to the stories of people forced to flee war-torncountries to find asylum in Europe hoping for better
living conditions. The result of colonisation includes
degradation of natural resources capitalism and rapid
urbanisation, enforcing governmental economic
political and other social policies in the post-colonialsocieties that distribute resources unequally among
their nation's members. Metaphorically themushrooms are also a reminder of the spread andunfolding of organic movements of humankind
beyond controlled borders and doomed immigration
policies. The movement is a resistance.The artistic
research of the project was inspired and influenced byreading the book "The Mushroom at the end of theWorld" by Anna Tsing. It says that after an atomic
bomb destroyed Hiroshima the first living thing toemerge from the destroyed landscape was amatsutake mushroom." Another inspiration is Édouard
Glissant's “The Caribbean Discourse”, where Glissantevokes the metaphor of the forest.
But at the heart of this work are also the narratives andfates of the people she meets. Ishita has conductedparticipatory workshops where refugees, migrants,
and locals meet to model mushrooms together. They
tell each other our stories during the workshop, speakin their native languages, and sing Songs ofResistance. These workshops are not primarily about
making mushrooms but serve as a connector andplatform for meeting people. Shaping mushrooms
becomes a spiritual journey, transferring people's
handprints and time spent together into themushrooms.

Price: upon request

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ManmeetMargarit Lehmann

Manmeet is an interdisciplinary artist, based in Delhi.

Geboren 1958 in Luzern/Schweiz
1985 bis 2012 wohnhaft in Barcelona
2012 Umzug nach Basel
1989-94 La Massana, Cenre d'Art i Disseny Barcelona
1995 La Llotja, l'Escola Superior de Disseny i Art,
Barcelona
Universitat de Barcelona - Facultad de Facultad deFilosofía,
1996 GrisArt, Höhere Schule für Fotografie

Installation

She has a post- graduate degree in painting from
Jamia Milia Islamia University, Delhi. She has a postgraduate degree in painting from Jamia Milia Islamia
University, Delhi.
Her work is closely linked to her own life and lifesituations, often with key feminist concerns as aforeground.
She has performed as part of- Khoj Live 2008;- Regional Arts and Performance Events (R.A.P.E.)
Guwahati, 2012;- KNMA, 2012;- School of Art and Aesthetics-JNU, 2013;- Live Art Lab, Bangalore, 2014;- Illicit Bodies, Bengluru,2014;- Der Langest Tag, Zurich 2015;- Was also on the 2012 shortlist for the prestigious
Skoda Prize.
- Recipient of Pro Helvetia Research Residency
2015-2016: Dhaka Art Summit;- Festival of stories,Bengluru; JNU, SAA 2018
- Srinagar Biennale 2019 ;- The Mothers' Studio, a curatorial exercise, as part of
5 million incidents, supported by Goethe Institute, incollaboration with Raqs Media Collective.
Manmeet is a trial poet, school teacher and a single
mother, surviving the everyday war zone. She loves to
day dream and dance. And she lives her life on her
own terms.

Printworks and Digital Painting

Printworks
Title: A Year without Skin
Material: 2021
56 x 76 cm
Photogravure
Sheet from a series of 10 / Edition of 3 each
Somerset 250 g/m2

Description:
This conceptual work was created in the Corona year
2021.
Physical closeness, touching and the previously
everyday giving of hands is accompanied by viral fear.
So after months of distance, I decided to photographmy friends' hands, photopolymer the images onto a
copper plate and print them.
This way, when I wiped the ink off the printing plates, I
could touch the image of their hands. This resulted ina series of ten sheets.

Title: #lockdownstories
Material: Inkjet on Paper

The imprint of the palms is a formative memory of thistime.

Description:
Instagram posts from lockdown in the big city; Delhi

http://margaritlehmann.eu/portfolio/a-year-withoutskin-parvez/

Price: upon request

Price: 600 CHF

…Margarit Lehmann
Digital Painting
Title: NON-BINARY
Material: 2019
Video HD ohne Ton, 8:08 Min /LoopLCD Bildschirm
Holzrahmen, 63 x 80 cm
Edition 4

Description:
The work is based on a fall: The Fall by the Dutch
painter Cornelis van Haarlem (1592). The work is in the
Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and shows Adam and Eve
before eating the apple*. Non-Binary is a mental
experiment examining the patriarchal representationof human history.
This work opposes common forms of knowledge
formation and history. It is an artistic position that
understands gender and identity as a construction thatis not determined, but rather performative, andtherefore temporary. This non-binary subject, difficult
to describe, is interwoven with fragments of works
from other times, places and contexts.
Facts and fabrications create ambiguous, transformed
bodies, coming from the past and dissolving into a
possible future.
Public domain illustration
http://margaritlehmann.eu/portfolio/non-binary/

Price: 5,500 CHF

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Márcio de Abreu
Film

Márcio (Momó) de Abreu is a Brazilian filmmaker andresearcher. He has a Bachelor’s degree in History andcompleted M.A. programs in Critical Theory andCultural Studies and in Culture and Society. He
currently attends a doctoral program in Social
Psychology. His academic and artistic work focus on
Racial Representations and the Media, Race Relations,
Theory of Subjectivity, Cultural Psychology, and AfroBrazilian Culture and History.
Márcio began his trajectory as a filmmaker in 2011 asan Associate Producer in the feature-length
documentary CAPOEIRA: FLY AWAY BEETLE, a SilverAward winner at the Philadelphia International Film
Festival and Market 2012. Since then, Márcio has
worked in various documentary productions about thehistory and culture of peoples of African descent inBrazil. In 2014, he made his debut as a screenwriterand director with the short documentary film, OF
SLAVES AND SAINTS, Best Documentary Short winnerat the Black Star Film Festival 2015, Philadelphia. His
latest work includes the short experimental films
CONFINED, A DINNER, and BREATH, compiled as atrilogy under the title TALES FROM THE
QUARANTINE (2020). He is also the author of O Efeito
Negro Encantado: Representações Étnico-Raciais na
Era Obama (The Magical Negro Effect: Racial
Representations in the Age of Obama), published in
Brazil by Editora Devires in 2018.

Title: Breath
Material: Video
Description:
For some people, the coronavirus pandemic is anaggravating factor for an already suffocating reality.

Price: upon request

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Title: “Doobaa” (Sunken)
Material: A set of 33 leafs - 5x7 inches each / Inkjet
prints on Hahnemühle Paper / AP + Editions of 2 V/P
on request, 2018-2019

Description:

Mohsin Shafi
Artist Book

Mohsin Shafi is an interdisciplinary artist living andworking in Lahore – Pakistan.
Shafi’s practice focuses on South Asian identity and its
intersectional relationships with his national, cultural,
spiritual and religious interpretations and on thepropensity of these ideas to collectively produce andperpetuate institutionalised oppression anddomination on his sexual identity a queer man. Froman art-as-therapy perspective, he aims to support an
ethic of radical empathy through his works bycombining sentiments of tragedy, tenderness andhumor.
Shafi’s practice in other mediums further takes
advantage of personal archives, offering multiple
perspectives that reveal entrenched socio-politicalcontradictions in Pakistani society. In his process he's
seeking to create non-colonial gestures to enact
healing, rebalance and repair from the colonialism. He
is interested in the role of art in social change,transformative healing and collective justice.
Shafi uses collages, photography, video, text,
installations and performance for his art practice.
In the last decade, shafi has showcased his workthroughout all prominent galleries in Pakistan. His
work has also been part of various travelling shows, art
fairs, galleries and alternative space displays aroundthe globe. In 2019, He was awarded a Studio
Residency at Alter Mondial, Basel organised by Pro
Helvetia, Zürich - Switzerland.
Shafi holds a Masters Degree in visual arts andBachelors Degree in visual communication, both fromthe oldest school of art in Pakistan, the National
college of Arts in Lahore. He served his alma mater foralmost seven years as faculty before he was exiled for
his outspoken writings and activism in early 2018.
Poems and verses

The work in the show “Sunken” (Dooba in Urdu) is an
artist book inspired by south asian sufi poetry and its
inspiration in Pakistani music from 1980’s. I grew up
listening to this song “Tere Ishq Mein Jo Bhi DoobGaya” which was one of the mergers between a Sufi
artist and a Pop Artist, which now in contemporary
times is founded as the genre we called Sufi Rock.
“Tere ishq mein jo bhi doob gaya,
usse dunya ki lehron se derna kaya”.
'The one who gets drowned in your love, doesn't haveto fear the waves of the world. What everyone thinks
about me has ceased to bother me. I have reached astage where all that matters to me is you. In every
single entity of the universe, I seek your traces and thesigns which you have left for me. I seek your traces inthe sky and the world which lies beyond the stars.. The
one who gets life from water of a stream need not fear
it's mighty flow.”
The artist book reflects upon the power of surrenderand belief system and going with the flow of love thatis pure and virgin. I made this work in the times I
experienced fire of love and ashes of betrayal.. that’s
when I encountered the the meaning of surrender tothe earth and the universe.

Price: 700 Euros

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Installation
Title: Everything Is Fine
Material: Polyester, Match sticks, Brass wire/
Dimensions: 51 x 32 x 11 cm, 2018

Description:

Parvez

Performance video, Installation
Parvez is a multidisciplinary conceptual andperformance artist from India, currently based in Basel
Switzerland.
His work focuses on the (de)construction of identities,
the status quo and (neo)colonialism. He finds his ideas
from the social conditions around him and works witha variety of media that ranges from his own body,
video, images, sound and colors to found objects,
industrial material etc.
He studied Medicine in India and later worked in
Psychiatry until 1995. He then moved to film making
from where he gravitated towards Art.
His videos have been screened and awarded atinternational film festivals since 2001. His artworks andperformances have been shown in a number of
exhibitions, including solo shows, in Switzerland, India
and beyond.

Website: www.parvez.work
Instagram: @parvezunart

Performance video
Title: A Song For Them Too
Material: 13 Min/ HD with stereo sound/ English/
2017, Performed at:
LEGS Basel – Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel,
Switzerland. June 17, 2017

Description: Those, who may never be able tolisten to our songs; those, who may be hiding under
the debris of their own homes to avoid random bombs
or bullets somewhere, in some faraway land; those,
who may be struggling to find some food to keep
themselves alive this very moment… how does one
get a song for ‘them’ going?

In a frenzied world with continuous and senselessdestruction of the planet, in the name of production,
efficiency and profits; post-truth politics is a perfect fit.
To sooth one's nerves and numb one's mind to an
obvious future, one laps up every false assurance
merely to feel a sense of stillness and calm, just like an
addict wants his/her dose of a drug, knowing well thatit changes nothing.

Installation
Title: Blood Money Plant
Material: Acyrlic paint, money and glass on a metal
object, Dimensions: Approx. 30 x 20 x 20 cm
2021

Description:

Money was originally conceptualized as a token to
improve upon the barter system and help the people
buy only the goods they require. However
imperialism, colonization and notion of accruing
capital and making profits, turned it into a commodity
itself. The unequal valuation of currencies, played out
through a convoluted game of politics of economies.
ensures that colonial loot continues unabated.

Prices: upon request

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Petra Keinhorst
Sculpture

Petra was born and raised in Bochum, studied at art
college in Frankfurt/Main and, as part of an exchange,in Dublin. She graduated in 1992 with a masters in
Sculpture and has since continuously worked as an
artist, living and exhibiting in Germany, Ireland, South
Africa and Switzerland. She has had several jobs to
support my work, and have been a non-paid firefighter and wild-life ranger.
Petra returned to live and work in Basel 8 years ago after many years in South Africa and some in Ireland.
She grew up in Germany and graduated in Sculpture
from Frankfurt College of Art in 1992. She won several
art awards and residencies. Her sculpture work uses
hard paraffin wax that she has been re-melting (from afirst public sculpture in 1999) and re-working since.
The material transforms into ever new projects that
increasingly address issues of the impact ourenterprises cause on the biosphere. She was actively
involved in wildlife conservation and is a keen birder.
Petra is showing two of her works: "Hanging Tusks"
and "Baby Blues", which were both made in thecontext of her installation series Anthropocene,
starting from before the declaration of the new epoch.
She has been casting, carving or forming numerous
objects from hard paraffin wax, some of which can beseen as symbolic of our harmful activities on thisplanet, assembling these to create a certain
atmosphere that is alluring, yet troubling, too. The
fragility of the sensual material plays into it, adding to
the transient character of the work and what it standsfor.
She has had numerous exhibitions and public projects
in an around the Basel area in Ettingen, Solothurn,
Freiburg and Berlin, Germany
2020 "Treibflug", SGBK Space at Museum Design
Collection, Basel2019 "Dots and Lines", curated by Parvez Imam, in
support of the "Gletscherinitiative"

2019 "Spuren" (traces), KulturWerk Ettingen, curated
by Elfi Thoma, SGBK, CH
2018 platform blind_spot, curated by Ivan Isaev, partof Regionale19
2018 "Anonyme Zeichner", Gallery Körnerpark Berlin
2017 "Les jours des éphémères" (festival of ephemeralart), Solothurn/CH.
2016 "Lebensspuren" (life traces) E-Werk Freiburg/D,
curated by YZMO
Contact: vleilightstudio@gmail.com

Title: Hanging Tusks
Material: Paraffin Wax
Description:

Title: Baby Blues
Material: Paraffin Wax
Description: Suffocating Future

Prices:Tusks: CHF 4500,- for 8 tusks/ CHF 500,- to CHF 600,per tusk. Any proceeds going to The Black Mambas,
an anti-poaching initiative in South Africa.
Baby in Packet: Only the Packet is available for CHF
650,Wax face mask: CHF 120,-

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Title: MyMacrocosm Within
Material: Signage, Alu-Dibond
Description: Everything is within us, in a smaller
form. Our ego is bigger than the universe at times.

Rama Kalidindi

Price: 250 CHF

Installation

Rama is a mother, daughter, sister, computer scientist,
artist, yoga teacher and a dog walker.
She had many years of experiences on projects inInformatics and made a switch and has been working
in the visual arts fields over the last decade, oncompletion of her Foundation Art and Design course
at the Basel School of Design and embarking on a
MFA in Graphic Design at the HGK also in Basel. Since
her studies she has been working as a freelancegraphic and web designer and as a visualcommunicator in her work as an artist and curator. Her
work is multidisciplinary including painting, drawing,
installation, digital art and performance.
In 2019, she was prolific in a multitude of exhibitions;
two solo and two group exhibitions, three of which she
curated and exhibited her own work and one of which
she was invited to participate in Delhi, India.

Title: Isolation, Desolation and Derelict
Material: Oak and Glass
Description: The general states of isolation,
detachment, deterioration, desolation anddegradation. Without maintainance and care,becoming vesicles of reflection and silent observation
without interaction, thought, inter-change and repair.
Vescicles of degradation and despair…

Price: 2500 CHF

Title: High Carbon Footprint, Sattvic Diet
Material: Signage, Alu-Dibond
Description: Signage like this might normally be
used to forbid the feeding of fish. Interestingly this is
the opposite and positive phenomenon. Flying
ingredients in, from all over the planet to serve thedemanding needs of a highly differentiated palate,offering varieties that go far beyond the tolerances ofbuying locally and testing the adaptability of thehuman body, to support varieties beyond the staple
capacities. This counterposes the ideas of Sattvic dietto eat fresh and locally and is also not a plant-based
diet, AKA vegetarian !

Price: 550 CHF

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Tomoko Hashimoto
Drawing and Film

Tomoko is a painter, living and working in Chiba,
Japan. In 1996 she completed Master's Degree
Course, Graduate School of Tama Art University (MFA)
and in 2002 she received the 17th Received the 17th
Holbein Scholarship Grant. In 2003 she was Selectedin the 6th Art Documents Support Program by
SHISEIDO, then in 2019 she was an Artist-inResidence at Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland.
Tomoko has a many years of experience as a painterand a long portfolio of solo, group exhibitions as welland her works being part of public collections andbeing involved in many other illustrative works.
She creates oil paintings from motifs of nature, such asapples, camellias or rivers on huge canvases, or paints
on panels which have been cut in the shape of the
motif, using these to produce installations within an
exhibit space. In this exhibition, she presents 2 works,
a drawing and video slides. This motif of works is theBirs River in Basel. She stayed in Basel on her Art
Residency at Atelier Mondial in 2019 and walked
along the Birs River for many days.

Drawing
Title: Walk along the River: The Birs
Material: 78×56 cm
Watercolor, Persimmon Tannin on Paper

Description: *Price: upon request

Film
Title: Walk along the River: Plants
Material: Video slides displayed on an iPad
Description: *I paint plants and rivers. Plants symbolise life, rivers
symbolise death. At first glance, life and death appear
totally opposite. However, there is death because
there is life, therefore there is life because there isdeath. That is, life includes death.

Plants are kept alive by water. The rain that has fallen
on the plants sinks deep into the soil. Then it turns
into river and flows into the sea. The sea creates water
vapour, and rain, which then falls on the plants.
Everything is connected in the same circle. That isreincarnation.

Price: upon request

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Yota Tsotra
Painting

Yota Tsotra *1975, Patras/Greece, lives and works in
Basel and Aarau/Switzerland
Yota Tsotra completed her studied in MechanicalEngineering in Greece and Germany with a PhD
degree in 2004 and she received a Master Degree in
Fine Arts from the Art Institute in Basel in 2016. She
works with a variety of media to explore the overall
process of life, the connections between the atoms,
components and beings, the energy required to breakthese relationships and the potential of a newperspective after the breakage. Research and curating
are important parts of her artistic practice. The lastyears she has been focusing on the concepts ofeducation and innocence. As an example, the art
project FROZEN EDUCATION, presented at
Kaskadenkondensador, Basel, in 2018, in collaboration
with Dr. Kuckuckslabrador.
www.yotatsotra.com
www.frozeneducation.com

Title: Hope is every cloudy sunset (2021)
Material: Acrylic on canvas
70 x 80 cm

Description:
A child stands alone, watching the sunset. The
surrounding landscape seems empty and fragile,
however the colours create a sense of joy andinnocence. The posture of child shows strength andvigilance, as if he can see in the sky the future of theworld.