GEMZ: WET - by Current Obsession travelling Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Making of

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Making of an Icon examines key aspects of the artist’s life—his childhood trauma

has extended the notion of sculpture: language is his medium

It is an issue about the violence of borders and invisible enemies

including discussions on colonialism

GEMZ: WET - by Current Obsession travelling Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Making ofThis book is not an archive, it is a tide. You dont leaf through it, you wade. Pages splash. Stories stick. You come out damp. GEMZ: WET asks you to stay there wet, soaking, waiting for the next wave. Slippery, shimmering, dripping jewellery does not stay dry. It seeps, soaks, and runs over the edges of our bodies and into imagined worlds where boundaries between flesh, stone, fabric, metal and screen dissolve. GEMZ: WET is a plunge into fluidity,