Violets, lilacs, iodine, and violence
Judith Kakon
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Tunnel Tunnel is pleased to invite you Friday, November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM to the opening of the exhibition Violets, lilacs, iodine, and violence by Judith Kakon, Text by H.A. Halpert

Judith Kakon (born in 1988) lives and works in Basel. Her work includes sculpture, installation, image creation, and text. As an observer and commentator on the interrelationships between globalization, society, and commerce, she explores the contradictory networks of social laws, image systems, and memories that inhabit us unconsciously and that we, in turn, inhabit.

Judith Kakon sees the exhibition as a medium and thinks of space as a device. Her work examines what surrounds us in the world we live in. The motifs are familiar to us: fruit, flowers, barriers, candles, fairy lights, cupboards, ladders, monetary symbols, wishes. Her take on these motifs is less familiar. Through subtly modified reproductions and changes in context and space, Kakon presents us with the familiar once again, but this time outside of everyday life.

Her recent exhibitions have been hosted by venues such as Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims (2024), Gauli Zitter, Brussels (2024), La Criée, contemporary art center, Rennes (2023), Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen (2021), Kunsthalle Basel (2020), and others. Judith Kakon is currently a faculty member of the MFA program at Bard in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, as well as a member of the advisory board of the For exhibition space in Basel.

Exhibition text by H.A. Halpert