Judith Kakon (*1988) always integrates the locations of her exhibitions into her artworks. The starting point for her new series of works is the Museum zu Allerheiligen with its extensive collections. The large-scale paper objects unfold like an echo of this place of collecting, preserving, and exhibiting. The handmade, honeycombed bodies form large volumes whose cells represent interstitial empty spaces. Similar to storage spaces, archives, and digital databases, they have the potential to be filled with content. They also refer to how we use or even occupy real and virtual spaces. When the works are folded up into small stacks of paper, their volume and honeycomb chambers almost completely disappear.

The publication Stolen Language will be published alongside the exhibition and features numerous illustrations that offer insight into the artist’s work. It negotiates the relationship between image and language as if the space of the book were an archive, or perhaps an exhibition space. Judith Kakon studied art in Jerusalem and New York and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the Bard MFA program in 2016. She lives and works in Basel.

Publication
Judith Kakon
Stolen Language, Mousse Publishing, 2021, 152 pages, in color and black and white
In English and German
CHF 25
ISBN 978-88-6749-486-6

 

With kind support:
MANOR 
Kunstverein Schaffhausen
Sturzenegger-Stiftung
Georg und Josi Guggenheim Stiftung
Basel Landschaft – SWISSLOS
Kanton Basel-Stadt
Ruth und Paul Wallach-Stiftung
Medienpartner: Schaffhauser Nachrichten