Marina Pinsky

Dyed Channel

Marina Pinsky, installation view, Dyed Channel, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Courtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G New York, Brussels. Photo: Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel

Marina Pinsky, installation view, Dyed Channel, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Courtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G New York, Brussels. Photo: Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel

Marina Pinsky, Dyed Channel, view on Rhine Riverbed 29, 2015, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Courtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G New York, Brussels. Photo: Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel

Marina Pinsky, installation view, Dyed Channel, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Courtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G New York, Brussels. Photo: Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel

Marina Pinsky, installation view, Dyed Channel, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Courtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G New York, Brussels. Photo: Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel

Marina Pinksy, installation view, Dyed Channel, view on Landscape (Pharmakon I–XXIV), 2014–15, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Courtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G New York, Brussels. Photo: Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel

Marina Pinksy, installation view, Dyed Channel, view on Landscape (Pharmakon I–XXIV), 2014–15, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Courtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G New York, Brussels. Photo: Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel

Marina Pinksy, detail, Dyed Channel, view on Landscape Pharmakon XXIV, 2015, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Courtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G New York, Brussels. Photo: Hugard & Vanoverschelde/Kunsthalle Basel

Marina Pinksy, installation view, Dyed Channel, view on Underbelly (Concorde), 2015, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Courtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G New York, Brussels. Photo: Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel

Marina Pinksy, installation view, Dyed Channel, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Courtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G New York, Brussels. Photo: Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel

Marina Pinksy, installation view, Dyed Channel, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Courtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G New York, Brussels. Photo: Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel

Marina Pinksy, Dyed Channel, view on Lily, 2015, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Courtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G New York, Brussels. Photo: Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel

Marina Pinksy, Plakat zur Ausstellung, Dyed Channel, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Design: Marina Pinksy

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Taking Basel—its Rhine, architecture, and pharmaceutical history—as her central subject, Marina Pinsky (b. 1986) creates an oneiric landscape of new works for her first institutional exhibition in Switzerland and her largest solo show to date. The Russian-born, Brussels-based artist uses historical examples of product branding to explore the politics behind objects and images of them. Everywhere in her work, photography is a crucial tool for capturing the world around her; here, using casting processes, slideshows, and other methods of replicating objects and images, she creates what one might call photography through other means.