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16 June – 21 June 2026
Stand 12
Mila Mayer, Julien Spiewak and Gabriel Wickbold

Bringing together the photographic practices of Mila Mayer, Julien Spiewak and Gabriel Wickbold, during Photo Basel 2026, unfolds through a subtle fil conducteur: blue as atmosphere, as sensation, as a space of projection. Long associated in art history with states of introspection and immateriality—from the melancholic tonalities of Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period to the immersive chromatic fields of Yves Klein—blue here operates less as a subject than as a condition.

Graduated at the University of Paris VIII, Spiewak has long investigated the relationship between the photographic image and the human body. Since 2005, his ongoing series Corps de style situates fragments of a living body within museum interiors and private collections. In these carefully composed images, classical furniture and historical settings are disrupted by the insertion of the body—an unexpected presence that introduces tension, desire, and estrangement.Within this framework, blue often emerges as a zone of suspension, amplifying the distance between object and subject, past and present.

Mayer’s trajectory follows a different rhythm. Born in Brazil and shaped between continents, she came to photography after a career in economics, bringing with her a sensibility attuned to lived experience and transformation. Her work, informed by both: an  European visual tradition and a Brazilian sensitivity to color, approaches the image as an intuitive and immersive field. Blue, in
her photographs, becomes tactile and expansive—rooted in nature, memory, and movement—inviting a slower, more contemplative gaze.

Within this trajectory, Gabriel Wickbold expands the symbolic dimension of blue through works from the Brasileiros series, in which the monochromatic blue background operates as a field of identity projection.The color ceases to function merely as visual support and instead becomes a device of unification. In these works, blue becomes simultaneously surface and depth — a territory in which identity, belonging, and representation remain in constant negotiation

Together, their works construct a dialogue between interruption and immersion, between the body as a site of tension and the image as a space of absorption. The “blue mood” that emerges is not merely aesthetic, but perceptual: a condition in which time dilates, boundaries soften, and the viewer is drawn into a quiet, introspective encounter.

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