Liste Art Fair Basel | Booth 9
Messe Basel, Hall 1.1, Maulbeerstrasse / corner Riehenring 113, 4058 Basel Switzerland

Blindspot Gallery is pleased to participate in Liste Art Fair Basel 2023, presenting a solo booth of works by Isaac Chong Wai (b. 1990) who is based between Berlin and Hong Kong. Influenced by personal events and global phenomena, he engages themes of collectivism and individualism, nationalism and postcolonialism, as well as historical memories. Chong’s presentation, entitled “Breath by Breath”, will center around the phenomenon when we breathe onto glass, the air fogs up the surface, leaving a blurry and ghostly mark that fades over time. Through photography, glass sculpture, and video, Chong memorializes the fragility and temporality of life, investigating our mourning and commemoration of it by considering “breath marks” as transient trails of the living. He traces breath marks across nations and histories, using his breath to contour the performance of sorrow and to conceal the memorial that is narrated by the state.