latifa echakhch's music festival invites all to the messeplatz at art basel 2023

At the 2023 edition of Art Basel, Moroccan-born, Swiss-based Latifa Echakhch joins forces with Luc Meier, director of the La Becque Artist Residency, to transform the Messeplatz with a series of deconstructed stages. These stages are set in a vertical fashion, complemented by the presence of lowered lighting rigs. Their purposeful arrangement allows for multiple interpretations —as scenography, minimalist sculptures, or even obstructions— intending to simultaneously fulfill and challenge the romanticism often associated with live performances.

Through its fragmented geometry and integration of musicians, this year’s Messeplatz commission titled Der Allplatz and curated by Samuel Leuenberger serves as a continuation of the artist’s interrogations of deconstructed concert stages that were at the heart of last year’s ‘The Concert’ project at the Venice Biennale 2022. 

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