WHERE IT SLIGHTLY GOES OFF | 2026

Installation view with a white bound textile figure on a pedestal, a seated yellow figure and framed drawings on a dark wall.
Where It Slightly Goes Off | 2026
Where It Slightly Goes Off, exhibition view, Gallery Daeppen, August 2026
Where It Slightly Goes Off | 2026
Installation view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, featuring textile figures in white, black and yellow on dark plinths, with a row of framed blue watercolor drawings.
Where It Slightly Goes Off | 2026
Installation view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, featuring a long yellow textile figure extending across the floor, with smaller textile works displayed on the dark gallery wall.
Where It Slightly Goes Off | 2026
Yellow sculptural figure with elongated arms extending across the floor toward a seated gnome-like figure.
Where It Slightly Goes Off #5 | 2026
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of a pink knitted, painted and hardened textile figure, with one hand unraveling the torso and the other holding loose threads, while long strands trail to the floor.
Where it slightly goes off #3, 2026
Installation view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, featuring a yellow garden gnome standing on a yellow metal barrel, entwined with an elongated yellow textile figure, with pink, knitted, hardened work on the dark wall.
Where It Slightly Goes Off | 2026
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of an entangled figure with its nose stuck in a pot, made from yellow and brown plaid textile and seated on a black wall-mounted shelf.
Where It Slightly Goes Off #4, 2026
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of a yellow head made of sponge fabric resting in a colander, with long thread spilling onto the floor.
Where It Slightly Goes Off #7, 2026
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of a curled textile figure drawn with black marker lines, folded tightly over itself on a dark wall-mounted shelf.
Where It Slightly Goes Off #2, 2026
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of a textile figure wrapped and entangled in strips of fabric, seated on a dark plinth with elongated hands hanging down.
Where it slightly goes off, exhibition view Gallery Daeppen, August 2026
Installation view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel with textile sculptures on dark plinths, including black, white and yellow figures, with framed drawings on the dark gallery walls.
Where It Slightly Goes Off | 2026
Installation view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel with textile sculptures on dark plinths, including black, white and yellow figures, with framed drawings on the dark gallery walls.
Where It Slightly Goes Off | 2026
Yellow textile figure seated on a small wheeled stool against a dark gallery wall.
Where It Slightly Goes Off #5 | 2026
Yellow textile figure seated on a small wheeled stool against a dark gallery wall.
Where It Slightly Goes Off #5 | 2026- detail
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of a denim textile figure sinking into, or trying to climb out of, a dark pedestal.
Where It Slightly Goes Off | 2026
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of a watercolor drawing depicting intertwined figures.
Untitled (drawing series) | 2026
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of a watercolor drawing depicting intertwined figures.
Untitled (drawing series) | 2026
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of a watercolor drawing depicting a seated, intertwined figure.
Untitled (drawing series) | 2026
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of a seated dark grey painted papier-mâché figure holding a long white fabric arm and hand in its mouth, sitting on the concrete floor against a dark exhibition wall.
Where It Slightly Goes Off | 2026
Installation view with a white bound textile figure on a pedestal, a seated yellow figure and framed drawings on a dark wall.
Where It Slightly Goes Off | 2026
Where It Slightly Goes Off, exhibition view, Gallery Daeppen, August 2026
Where It Slightly Goes Off | 2026
Installation view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, featuring textile figures in white, black and yellow on dark plinths, with a row of framed blue watercolor drawings.
Where It Slightly Goes Off | 2026
Installation view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, featuring a long yellow textile figure extending across the floor, with smaller textile works displayed on the dark gallery wall.
Where It Slightly Goes Off | 2026
Yellow sculptural figure with elongated arms extending across the floor toward a seated gnome-like figure.
Where It Slightly Goes Off #5 | 2026
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of a pink knitted, painted and hardened textile figure, with one hand unraveling the torso and the other holding loose threads, while long strands trail to the floor.
Where it slightly goes off #3, 2026
Installation view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, featuring a yellow garden gnome standing on a yellow metal barrel, entwined with an elongated yellow textile figure, with pink, knitted, hardened work on the dark wall.
Where It Slightly Goes Off | 2026
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of an entangled figure with its nose stuck in a pot, made from yellow and brown plaid textile and seated on a black wall-mounted shelf.
Where It Slightly Goes Off #4, 2026
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of a yellow head made of sponge fabric resting in a colander, with long thread spilling onto the floor.
Where It Slightly Goes Off #7, 2026
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of a curled textile figure drawn with black marker lines, folded tightly over itself on a dark wall-mounted shelf.
Where It Slightly Goes Off #2, 2026
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of a textile figure wrapped and entangled in strips of fabric, seated on a dark plinth with elongated hands hanging down.
Where it slightly goes off, exhibition view Gallery Daeppen, August 2026
Installation view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel with textile sculptures on dark plinths, including black, white and yellow figures, with framed drawings on the dark gallery walls.
Where It Slightly Goes Off | 2026
Installation view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel with textile sculptures on dark plinths, including black, white and yellow figures, with framed drawings on the dark gallery walls.
Where It Slightly Goes Off | 2026
Yellow textile figure seated on a small wheeled stool against a dark gallery wall.
Where It Slightly Goes Off #5 | 2026
Yellow textile figure seated on a small wheeled stool against a dark gallery wall.
Where It Slightly Goes Off #5 | 2026- detail
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of a denim textile figure sinking into, or trying to climb out of, a dark pedestal.
Where It Slightly Goes Off | 2026
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of a watercolor drawing depicting intertwined figures.
Untitled (drawing series) | 2026
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of a watercolor drawing depicting intertwined figures.
Untitled (drawing series) | 2026
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of a watercolor drawing depicting a seated, intertwined figure.
Untitled (drawing series) | 2026
Detail view at Galerie Daeppen, Basel, of a seated dark grey painted papier-mâché figure holding a long white fabric arm and hand in its mouth, sitting on the concrete floor against a dark exhibition wall.
Where It Slightly Goes Off | 2026

Where It Slightly Goes Off
Solo exhibition
Guillaume Daeppen | Gallery & Space for Zines, Basel
28 August – 31 October 2026
Kunsttage Basel 2026

The works revolve around situations in which beings attempt to maintain themselves. They become absorbed in ordinary actions and seemingly insignificant gestures that gradually begin to shape the situations they inhabit. They adapt, persist and quietly continue, often not seeming to notice what their actions cause.

The shift settles in quietly.

The figures are neither victims nor heroes. They persist. They rarely resist. Without any drama they continue to be part of the systems they helped create, even after those systems have grown beyond them and start to work against them.

 

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