Ibon Aranberri
Kunsthalle Basel
As if questioning if, or how, context changes content, Ibon Aranberri titled his recent show “Integration.” The minimal installation featured three projects from the past seven yearsof which only one has actually been realized in its original context, while the other two exist as relics or project sketches, though ones that the artist now regards as works in and of themselves. Aranberri grew up in the Basque country in the post-Franco era, and most of his work uses this specific geopolitical background to show how the decoding of cultural memoryand forgettingcan be translated