BASIC COLOR EDITION ONE

"A BODY CONSTRUCT"

Shot by Raf Stahelin

The body is not natural. We are born an organism, but a body is something that is constructed. Not merely handed to us by nature, the body is the encounter between living being and language. A cornerstone in Lacanian psychoanalytical writings, this socializing process was an on-going leitmotif in the making of Basic Color. I felt the urge to crystallize this encounter in the Basic Color book. Basic Color is a project we built around the interactions of colors. Like social constructs built on racial differences, we felt compelled to represent these expressions of difference through color compositions. Through artful choreography, Basic Color explores the relations between colors and the fluid exchange of boundaries that ensues from their interaction. The result is a representation of body constructs, the way bodies acquire the status of home.