HARD BLUSH / MOTHS TO FLAME
Basel Social Club (CH)
2026
BASEL SOCIAL CLUB 2026 takes place in an office. LETHE works with the structural and architectural complexity, creating an installation in the backrooms and former translation-booths behind the temporary gym.
HARD BLUSH is a 7-part wallsculptural piece consisting of aluminum frames that were beaten and etched into like a tattooed upper body armor (a cuirass). The beaten hardness mirrors the
self-optimization plague driving contemporary lifestyles into disciplined body modification. A blurry Zone exists between “selfceare” and the persisting attraction to fascist aesthetic ideals, which the neoliberal body dangerously straddles.
Inside the metal frame - or is it a passepartout - mono prints produced in a self-proclaimed “wet-on-wet” technique mirror the (lesbian) erotics that prevails in abstracted blush. A life giving element, billowing through it all.
BACKSTAGE SUN (OFFICE VERSION) is a work glowing a sunset-like colour-transition into a deadened space, a smirky, site-responsive work that glimmers the corridor like a life-support machine a dying patient.
MOTHS TO FLAME, a 400-piece installation consisting of 400 different hand-made ceramic sculptures resembling moths flying to a light, no-one quite knows where-to. An echo of the event, adjacent to the art worlds’ most vibrant fare and its side entertainment systems, the moths stick to the glass in a soaked copper light, kind of timeless.
(Series of 7)
monoprint (wet-on-wet)
in aluminium artist-frame
35 x 50 [cm]
2026
MOTHS TO FLAME
(197 pieces)
clay sculptures
variable dimensions
2026
BACKSTAGE SUN (OFFICE VERSION)
site specific light situation
2026