Sam Lewitt, Installation view More Heat Than Light, view on Weak Local Lineament (MHTL), 2016, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Photo: Philipp Hänger
Sam Lewitt, Weak Local Lineament (MHTL), 2016, detail, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Photo: Philipp Hänger
Sam Lewitt, Installation view More Heat Than Light, view on A Weak Local Lexicon (MHTL), 2016, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Photo: Philipp Hänger
Sam Lewitt, A Weak Local Lexicon (MHTL), 2015, detail, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Photo: Philipp Hänger
Sam Lewitt, Installation view More Heat Than Light, view on Weak Local Lineament (MHTL), 2016, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Photo: Philipp Hänger
Sam Lewitt, Installation view More Heat Than Light, view on Weak Local Lineament (MHTL), 2016, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Photo: Philipp Hänger
Sam Lewitt, Installation view More Heat Than Light, view on Weak Local Lineament (MHTL), 2016, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016. Photo: Philipp Hänger
Sam Lewitt: More Heat Than Light
Minimal in form and conceptually dense, More Heat Than Light by the US-American artist Sam Lewitt (b. 1981) features numerous large-scale heating circuits inserted into Kunsthalle Basel’s overhead lighting grid. A sly intervention into the institutional infrastructure, these circu