Sandra Mujinga

Time as a Shield

 Sandra Mujinga, Time as a Shield, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

 Sandra Mujinga, Time as a Shield, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

 Sandra Mujinga, Time as a Shield, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

 Sandra Mujinga, Time as a Shield, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

 Sandra Mujinga, Time as a Shield, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Sandra Mujinga, Ghost Forest (1–7), 2024, detail view, in: Sandra Mujinga, Time as a Shield, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Sandra Mujinga, Shared Breath (1–6), 2024, detail view, in: Sandra Mujinga, Time as a Shield, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

 Sandra Mujinga, Time as a Shield, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Sandra Mujinga, Grief, 2024, installation view, in: Sandra Mujinga, Time as a Shield, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

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. 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 ghostly figures and a series of photographs that confront issues of the body, technology, surveillance, and survival.

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