Tiona Nekkia McClodden

The Poetics of Beauty will Inevitably Resort to the Most Base Pleadings and Other Wiles in Order to Secure its Release

Exhibition
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
2023
Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Hold on, let me take the safety off, 2019, all works Rennie Collection, Vancouver, CA. Exhibition view, COMPANY Gallery, New York, US, courtesy the artist

Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Hold on, let me take the safety off, 2019, all works Rennie Collection, Vancouver, CA. Exhibition view, COMPANY Gallery, New York, US, courtesy the artist

Tiona Nekkia McClodden, The Brad Johnson Tape, X - On Subjugation, 2017, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US. Installation view, photo: Constance Mensh

Tiona Nekkia McClodden, The Brad Johnson Tape, X - On Subjugation, 2017, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US. Installation view, photo: Constance Mensh

Tiona Nekkia Mc Clodden, Se Te Subio El Santo | [05.04.16], 2016, photography, courtesy the artist

Tiona Nekkia Mc Clodden, Se Te Subio El Santo | [05.04.16], 2016, photography, courtesy the artist

For her very first institutional solo exhibition in Europe, Tiona Nekkia McClodden (*1981) weaves together a body of all new work to continue her ongoing exploration of the intersections of control, threat, desire, and pleasure. Imagining the whole of her exhibition as a kind of theoretical choke valve, the US-American artist showcases sculpture based on readymade elements used in the cattle industry, paintings on leather, video, and performance that provoke a distinct sensorial encounter as much as an intellectual and emotional one.