Florence Jung's project shows endless rain over Basel - an intervention in reality that raises questions about guilt, change and the fragile border between reality and fiction.

"A year of uninterrupted rain outside the window of a building - from one summer to the next." With these words, artist Florence Jung describes the idea behind the project she developed for Kunsttage Basel 2025. Florence Jung's works take the form of interventions that reveal existing spaces or contexts. The artist calls them "situations introduced into the real world". As interventions, they do not coincide with the existing world, but evoke a different, simultaneous space - a story, an incident, a doom, sometimes narrative, sometimes metaphysical. There is a gap between the world as we think we know it and how we tell it to ourselves, a gap that Florence Jung's scenarios keep open. Florence Jung: "Imagine an endless rain that falls over Basel. Why does the water, which brought prosperity and trade to the city through the Rhine, never stop falling? What has Basel done to deserve this?"
Text: Daniel Kurjaković

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Special project as part of the Kunsttage Basel 2025
Curator: Daniel Kurjaković
Thanks to: Raoul Dürr/Manufacture Dürr
2025 © Florence Jung, Kunsttage Basel


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