abraham cruzvillegas | bárbara sánchez-kane | damián ortega | danh vo
gabriel orozco | jimmie durham | leonor antunes | marta minujín
nairy baghramian | petrit halilaj |roberto gil de montes |roman ondak
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kabinett: wangshui
WangShui’s practice explores consciousness under the influence of technology—investigating how perception, thought, and selfhood are increasingly mediated by technological systems. Approaching technologies such as artificial intelligence through an ontological lens, WangShui navigates AI not merely as a tool, but as a recursive exchange that alters our fundamental sense of being. Painting becomes a site where these shifts can be felt, examined, and challenged. This cabinet presentation begins with a self-portrait of the artist—not as a static declaration of identity, but as a prism of relation. WangShui describes making this portrait as “a nightmarish reckoning with multiplicity.” From this first ink-on-aluminum painting, the works refract outward into a “dataset” of abstractions. The paintings are arranged in undulating geometries, suggesting they are each nodes along an ever-expanding and contracting flow of consciousness.
The presentation includes a range of media: oil, ink, copper, aluminum, and paper. The booth mainly focuses on WangShui’s recent experiments with ink that straddle a liminal space between eastern calligraphy and western expressionism. They often play these ideas and materials off one another to reach a parallax. This dynamic is exemplified in the works’ sensitivities to refraction/ obfuscation, surface/depth, color and light. Rather than approaching painting as an act of distillation or refinement, WangShui embraces it as a form of divergence. As algorithms increasingly modulate the way we think and breathe, the artist asks how intuitive mark-making has the potential to keep us embodied—how we can “sensate data in our bodies” and “redirect light.” Together, the paintings are not in pursuit of a cohesive style, but instead enact a constantly shifting flow of energy—an archive of resistance.
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+info: karensofie@kurimanzutto.com
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Messe Basel
Messeplatz 10
4058 Basel, Switzerland
booth n12
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