MIRKO BASELGIA

Interspace and Interval

Untouched space marked out by five trees, 2026
Pyrogravure on existing stakes, 2026

Mirko Baselgia’s two installations are deliberately understated, blending into the landscape so completely that the park itself takes centre stage.

Interspace emerges slowly over the months: a space marked out by five trees is left entirely untouched throughout the exhibition, becoming more apparent each time the surrounding grass is cut. Baselgia’s installation asks us, as visitors, to pay attention to the park itself. Because if we move through too quickly, we might miss it altogether. By withdrawing human intervention from a specific area – and making that very act of withdrawal the essence of the work – the artist reveals pockets of wildness in an English-style landscape garden designed to look effortlessly natural.

Interval, meanwhile, focuses attention on the carefully managed renewal of the park’s trees. For each new sapling planted in 2026, Baselgia engraved the wooden stake with the birth and death dates of every resident of Bex who was born or who died between 1 January and 30 September 2026. The artist presents the dates alone, without names or symbols. In this way, the saplings echo the changing population of the town, binding the future of Szilassy Park to the lives of its inhabitants, and turning the landscape into a silent witness to the cycles of human life.

Mirko Baselgia (CH, b. 1982*) lives and works in the Swiss Alps.