Liste Art Fair Basel

Gallerytalk: Highlights der Liste Art Fair Basel 2025

Petrine is excited to return Liste Art Fair Basel with a solo presentation by Boz Deseo Garden at booth 93, taking place from June 16 to June 22.

Garden is an artist and theorist whose interdisciplinary practice works within the material and conceptual impasses between Afropessimism and psychoanalysis. Through sculpture, video, and critical writing, Garden positions transatlantic slavery as the unconscious ligature for knowledge production, Western notions of form and matter, and psychoanalytic modes of enjoyment.

The presentation at Liste continues Garden's interrogations of the dramaturgy between the politics of desire, philosophies of property, and archival studies. For Garden, researching the artifacts and afterlives of slavery means contending with their imposed sequestration from Western notions of meaning, relation, and representation. Through an aesthetics of secrecy and performance, Garden presents the readymade objects of their practice as both indeterminate traces and banal spectacles of racial slavery’s enduring effects.

Boz Deseo Garden (b. 1997, Monterey, California, USA) lives and works in Los Angeles. Solo exhibitions include Timeshare, Los Angeles (2024); Petrine, Paris (2023); and Jargon Projects, Chicago (2022). Selected group exhibitions include Project Space, London (2025); Petrine, Paris (2025); Final Hot Desert, London (2024); Heidi, Berlin (2024); Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2023); and Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2022). They hold a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and are Program Director at the forthcoming Morning Star Research Center for the Afterlife of Slavery in Los Angeles.

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