Tunnel Tunnel is pleased to invite you Friday, March 13, 2026 at 6 pm to the opening of the exhibition Axial Desire by James Bantone.
James Bantone’s exhibition Axial Desire presents a new series of works, arising from a reflection on one’s self-image and its fragmentation. The naked body and its reproduction are the starting point for a series of gestures and transformations—stretched, painted, photographed, transposed, then exposed to a process of oxidation and obliteration. Between statement and fleetingness, Axial Desire questions the tradition of the nude in art history while questioning its contemporary forms of circulation, staging, and consumption.
James Bantone (b. 1992 Geneva; lives and works in Paris) graduated with a Bachelor of Art & Media - Video at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in 2019 and completed the Work.Master Contemporary Artistic Practices program at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) in 2021. He has had solo exhibitions at New York Life Gallery, New York (2025); 032c Gallery, Berlin (2024); Spazio Maiocchi, Milan (2024); Swiss Institute, New York (2024); Karma International, Zurich (2023); and Coalmine, Winterthur (2020). He has participated in group exhibitions at James Fuentes, New York (2025); Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna (2024); Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (2023); Kunsthalle Zurich (2023); Simian, Copenhagen (2023); Klemm’s Gallery, Berlin (2023); Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2023); Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève (2022); Cordova, Barcelona (2021); Kunsthalle Fribourg (2020); and UV Estudios, Buenos Aires (2019).
Exhibition text by Eleonora Milani
Photo © Julien Gremaud
