Sandra Mujinga

Time as a Shield

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Sandra Mujinga, LACK, 2022, exhibition view in: Sandefjord Kunstforening, courtesy the artist; Croy Nielsen, Vienna and The Approach, London

Sandra Mujinga, Spectral Keepers, 2021, exhibition view, The Approach, London, courtesy the artist

 

Sandra Mujinga, Worldview, 2021, installation view, Swiss Institute, New York, courtesy the artist; Croy Nielsen, Vienna and The Approach, London

Sandra Mujinga, Amnesia? Amnesia?, 2019, installation view, in: Witch Hunt, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, photo: David Stjernholm, courtesy the artist; Croy Nielsen, Vienna und The Approach, London

For Time as a Shield, the first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland of Sandra Mujinga (*1989), the artist presents a new, atmospherically dense installation specifically designed for Kunsthalle Basel. Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and raised in Norway, Mujinga has developed a practice that deploys sound, ambiences, and imposing sculptures to often unsettling effect. Central to her new installation is a choir of imposing ghostly figures and photographs that confront issues of the body, technology, surveillance, and survival.