Kelly Tissot

Kelly Tissot (1995), originally from France, works and lives in Basel (CH). Tissot grew up in the French countryside, where she finds all the melancholy, boredom and illumination of suburban non-spaces. There is a dreamlike atmosphere in these works, which capture a reality of waiting, suspended, awaiting an event. There is something austere about these large black-and-white images. The photographs document a still, threatening, potentially hostile world. The objects are like sleeping wild animals that can wake up at any moment. Tissot tracks down the hidden structures and animated things, the charged signs that lie beneath the material landscape. Her works, like mute ghosts or silent visions, cast flashes of light - flashes of darkness - on the contradictory and shattered dimension of a divided culture, connecting us to invisible affects so that we can face a damaged world.