Amanda Ross-Ho’s evolving language combines forensic and theatrical gestures, diagramming the reflexive relationships between production, presentation, and the social contracts of viewership. She revisits images and forms in multiple iterations, employing translation, shifts in scale, and site-responsive gestures that address the complexities of context.
In Untitled Findings (ACCESS), enlarged replicas of keys that open doors to a range of cultural institutions and private spaces located in Basel are placed at varying intervals throughout the city. The viewer discovers the keys one-by-one, situated as if they’d been dropped by a careless pedestrian. A large-scale sculptural replica of the artists’ own carabiner keychain completes the work. While employing the shift in scale of quotidian objects for which Ross-Ho has become known, Untitled Findings (ACCESS) initiates an experience of memory, repetition, discovery, and illusions of access on the part of a Basel viewer while engaging with the cultural heritage and close-knit community of the city.
