In preparation for her upcoming installation for this year's Parcours at Art Basel, Emily McElwreath interviews Chloe Wise.

Chloe Wise’s practice spans diverse media, including painting, sculpture, video and installation. Foregrounding an interest in the history of portraiture, Wise examines the multiple channels that lead to the construction of a Self, paying particular attention to the interweaving of consumption and image making. With a wry sense of humour, she nods to canonical tableaux, like Manet’s Déjeuner Sur L’Herbe, exploring the shared projected desires built around food and the female body. Meticulously hand painted casts of food serve as the base for the artist’s sculptural practice where strange assemblies, now frozen in sculpted plastic, toy with the presence and absence of unchangeability and perishability, fiction and reality. Advertising, fashion, taboo, multi-national brands—Wise looks to the consumptive habits built around these structures with parody and derision, underlying how the body is framed and becomes excessive in its manipulation of these sites.

Curated by Samuel Leuenberger, founder of the Swiss non-profit exhibition spaces SALTS in Birsfelden and Country SALTS in Bennwil, the Parcours sector returns to Basel's Old Town with twenty projects including sculptures, films, performances, and site-specific installations. Parcours Night, during which participating artists activate their works with physical and sound-based interventions, will return as well and take place on Saturday, June 18 from 4 to 11pm. 

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Music: Chase Johnson

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