Oscar Chan Yik Long 陳翊朗
To Sleep and Wake Unafraid /PF25 cultural projects /Basel, Switzerland /Jun 14–22, 2025 / For his solo exhibition in Basel, Switzerland, Oscar Chan Yik Long created an environment of ink drawings. Entering the space feels like entering a body, the inner skin of which is covered with images. They are wild and tender, haunting and peaceful, bleeding from memories and experiences, as bodies always carry the traces of our traumas and happy moments. Bleached out in black and white, they are like repercussions of moments lived through: monsters and guardians at the same time. There is no limit, there are no boundaries, only flow, like associations of the mind and bodily fluids, sour and sweet at once. The space where this happens is a living room in a 16th-century building at the heart of medieval Basel. The walls are structured by painted panels and the ceiling is held up by mighty wooden beams, which together already create the atmosphere of a cosy cave, where time takes a breath and the heartbeat can slow. This most …
