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Aglaé Bassens: DOWNTIME

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May 25 - July 7, 2023
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  • AGLAÉ BASSENS: DOWNTIME

    May 25 - July 7, 2023
  • Aglaé Bassens is interested in the overlap of the private experience with the communal one. While her paintings stem from her own memories, the imagery feels approximate enough to belong to anyone else’s recollections. Calling attention to the overlooked and the everyday, each work begins with a photograph, either her own or found. Bassens siphons her personal memories, loading each image with feeling.At the same time, she edits and omits from each image, allowing it to be broad enough for anyone to identify with. Through her signature asymmetrical cropping and atmospheric treatment, she invites viewers to recognize something of their own in each painting.
    • Aglaé Bassens Catty catty, 2023 Oil paint on canvas 27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in 70 x 100 cm
      Aglaé Bassens
      Catty catty, 2023
      Oil paint on canvas
      27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in
      70 x 100 cm
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    • Aglaé Bassens Composure, 2023 Oil paint on canvas 39 3/8 x 51 1/8 in 100 x 130 cm
      Aglaé Bassens
      Composure, 2023
      Oil paint on canvas
      39 3/8 x 51 1/8 in
      100 x 130 cm
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    • Aglaé Bassens, Peach, 2023
      Aglaé Bassens, Peach, 2023
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  • Centering on the experience of being at home, DOWNTIME is made up of scenes of daily intimacy. A figure indulging in a cat nap, a takeout container-cum-wrapped gift, the undulating folds of a luxurious robe are a few motifs in Bassens’s repertoire that exude an ease and effortlessness as quotidian as the snapshots upon which they are based. 

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  • INSTALLATION VIEWS

    • Aglaé Bassens Surthriving, 2023 Oil paint on canvas 39 3/8 x 51 1/8 in 100 x 130 cm
      Aglaé Bassens
      Surthriving, 2023
      Oil paint on canvas
      39 3/8 x 51 1/8 in
      100 x 130 cm
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    • Aglaé Bassens Closet, 2023 Oil paint on canvas 39 3/8 x 51 1/8 in 100 x 130 cm
      Aglaé Bassens
      Closet, 2023
      Oil paint on canvas
      39 3/8 x 51 1/8 in
      100 x 130 cm
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    • Aglaé Bassens, Magnolia, 2023
      Aglaé Bassens, Magnolia, 2023
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    • Aglaé Bassens, I See You, 2023
      Aglaé Bassens, I See You, 2023
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  • Aglaé Bassens, Ivory Lampshades, 2023
     
     
    Artworks

    Aglaé Bassens

    Ivory Lampshades, 2023

    In addition to connotations of leisure and relaxation meant to restore functionality, DOWNTIME expands upon feelings of melancholy and downheartedness coincident with malfunction. A crumpled lampshade, sliding curtains hanging from a broken rod, a neglected and algae overgrown aquarium all evoke a narrative sense of unease that is at odds with the calm of home; yet, in the seclusion of one’s private space is where such flaws are permissible.

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  • This slippage between the private and the public is fertile ground for Bassens’s practice, and an analogy for painting itself, made alone in the studio then exposed for all to see.

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    • Aglaé Bassens Open 24/7, 2023 Oil paint on canvas 39 3/8 x 51 1/8 in 100 x 130 cm
      Aglaé Bassens
      Open 24/7, 2023
      Oil paint on canvas
      39 3/8 x 51 1/8 in
      100 x 130 cm
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    • Aglaé Bassens Stay Over, 2023 Oil paint on canvas 39 3/8 x 51 1/8 in 100 x 130 cm
      Aglaé Bassens
      Stay Over, 2023
      Oil paint on canvas
      39 3/8 x 51 1/8 in
      100 x 130 cm
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    • Aglaé Bassens, Two Green Plastic Chairs, 2022
      Aglaé Bassens, Two Green Plastic Chairs, 2022
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    • Aglaé Bassens, Cat Nap, 2022
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    • Aglaé Bassens, Make Yourself At Home, 2023
      Aglaé Bassens, Make Yourself At Home, 2023
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    • Aglaé Bassens, Window At Dusk, 2023
      Aglaé Bassens, Window At Dusk, 2023
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  • ABOUT THE ARTIST

    Aglaé Bassens (b. 1986, Belgium) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Bassens has a BA in Fine Art from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University (2007) and an MFA in Fine Art Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2011). Her work has been exhibited internationally, with solo presentations at HESSE FLATOW, New York, NY; 12.26, Dallas, TX; Nars Foundation, Brooklyn, NY; CRUSH Curatorial, New York, NY; and Cabin Gallery, London; as well as group exhibitions at Gowen Contemporary, Geneva; STEMS Gallery, Paris; The Valley, Taos, NM; and Workplace Gallery, London. Her work is featured in New American Paintings No. 134 Northeast Issue and in 100 Painters of Tomorrow published by Thames and Hudson. Bassens’s works can be found in the permanent collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami and Colección SOLO, Madrid, Spain.
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