Aglaé Bassens : You Can See Better From Here

Cast in the cool tones of an overcast afternoon, Aglaé Bassen's paintings create stillness in close crops of quotidian scenes. Inscribing the gallery with uncertain doublings — rain staining glass, light catching in a curtain's gauzy cascade — objects are saturated by the weight of a gaze peering closer and closer yet. Bassen’s canvases riff on the genre of “still life,” entertaining a dialogue between the arresting temporality of photographs and the active curiosity of a body exploring foreign environments. Striking a rhythm of scale and pattern, these canvases are...