Lili Reynaud-Dewar's Anti-Spectacle at Kunsthalle Basel

Lili Reynaud-Dewar presents 'Interpretation' at Kunsthalle Basel until June 6, 2010, a project rooted in Sun Ra's 1970 concert at Fondation Maeght. The exhibition explores spectacle and entertainment through a critical lens, incorporating performances, videos, and objects. Concurrently, her project 'Structures de pouvoir, rituels et sexualité chez les sténodactylos européennes' runs at Galerie Kamel Mennour until June 26. She also participates in 'Morality/remember Humanity and Other Fables' at Witte de With, Rotterdam, until September 26. Reynaud-Dewar draws on figures like Peter Saville, Ettore Sottsass, Peter Berlin, and Sun Ra, distinguishing between canonical designers and marginal performers who crafted personas. She employs camp theory to subvert dominant entertainment models, creating deliberately incomplete exhibitions that are completed elsewhere. Her performances often involve video documentation of actions that occur before the public arrives, as seen in the piece with her mother reenacting Sun Ra's concert. The work critiques the event-driven nature of contemporary institutions, exemplified by her scenography for the exhibition 'IAO' at Capc Bordeaux, which proposed a 'sick celebratory form' as an anti-response to institutional spectacle.