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East, West, Occident, Orient, Europe, Asia… it’s enough to make the most enthusiastic amongst us yawn. For Art Basel Statements, we are proud to present Régions d’etre: a playful look at a climate of being. Too often the region is por­trayed through the exc­lusively dour and dark lens of political and social upheaval. Our story is not one of distinct con­tinents or even a region but rather the unexpec­tedly merry romp of the forest meeting the steppe.

A jungle gym for chil­dren and adults alike, Régions d’etre celebrates the pluralist and lateral approach to iden­tity found across Slavs and Tatars’ work. Literally “a region of being,” Régions d’etre embeds a cheer­ful com­plexity to the other­wise innocuous medium of playground architec­ture. The work goes to the very origins of the artists’ prac­tice: by choosing to lodge them­selves between an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China.


ART 43 BASEL
Slavs and Tatars

SLAVS AND TATARS
Régions d'etre
Art 43 Basel / Art Statements
14-17.06.2012
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