Winter Line (Kunsthalle Basel, 2014) is an exhibition of works produced over a decade of collaboration with the artist David Harding, former Head of Sculpture and Environmental Art and GSA. The exhibition features site-specific films, sculptural objects, sound work, prints and coloured window installations. Through video and installations we weave complex layers of history into poetic acts of translation and transposition.

A new site-specific Envoy work was commissioned for the exhibition in Basel, based on the poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s ‘To Music’ which was thrown into the Rhine at Dreiländereck, where the borders of France, Germany and Switzerland meet on January 13, 2014. The text for this work was written in gold leaf on the gallery wall.

For the closing event, I composed Motet (2014) a series of Motets to be performed at the church of St. Romans in Raron, where Rilke is buried. Motet was performed by the Basel-based ensemble Solo Voices. Motet is in three movements: Raron, Ein Wind und Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch and responds to Rilke’s The Sonnets to Orpheus (1922) and the poet’s epitaph on his grave at Raron.