Chloe Wise: ‘I’m trying to put all of these things into a mishmash soup’
Chloe Wise's first major institutional exhibition in Switzerland, 'Extrasensory' at the Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger, is a multichannel video and immersive installation that deliberately defies easy definition. Curated by Samuel Leuenberger, the show draws from science fiction, consumer culture, organized religion, and art history to explore the supernatural and the unexplainable. Wise, known primarily for her paintings of friends in scenes of performative leisure, has eschewed painting entirely for this exhibition, creating a gift-shop-like entry point and featuring figures such as actor Bobbi Menuez, writer Joey Frank, and musician Moses Sumney as angelic characters.