June 13 - 16 | Messe Basel, Messeplatz 10, 4005 Basel

Eva Schlegel, Untitled (mirror labyrinth), exhibition view, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, 2022.

Gallery Wendi Norris is pleased to present a large-scale sculpture by Eva Schlegel at Art Basel Unlimited, in collaboration with Galerie Krinzinger and Bo Bjerggaard.

Looking into a mirror is an act of self-assurance about one’s own existence. Eva Schlegel disrupts this paradigm through her Untitled (mirror labyrinth) sculpture. Though this work features multiple mirrors, their arrangement prevents the viewer from seeing their own reflection. Instead, the mirror placement disorients and reflects fragmentary images of the surrounding space. Through its playful quality and open structure, the sculpture dissembles and deconstructs its surrounding environment, exploring new perspectives. This walkable labyrinth of steel elements and mirrors suspends the laws of space, opening up the view into the infinite when challenging the potential for associations. The mirror reflection as immaterial space is after all, to put it in Foucault's terms, a utopia since it is happening in a "placeless place."

Eva Schlegel (born 1960, lives and works in Vienna) creates photographs, sculptures, and installations that are concerned with the relationship between inanimate objects and human perception, especially regarding the contradictions and ruptures that occur within.

The fair will take place from Thursday, June 13 – Sunday, June 16, 2024.