IVANA BAŠIĆ

Ivana Bašić renders the body as a dense and finite space of confinement and examines the conditions and consequences of that space; its boundaries, its matter, its durability and its weight. By fusing synthetic materials such as silicone and glass and living materials such as wax, stone and oil paint, she embodies hollow and bruised forms that are at once bodies and habitats. Residing in the liminal space between life and death these sculptural forms test the boundaries of “human minimality” while examining what constitutes the notion of “wholeness”. For the viewer, Bašić’s work evokes both the repulsion and the beauty inherent to the pain and fragility of corporeality. Through the duality of her practice Bašić negotiates the complex conditions of mortality and speculates on scenarios beyond death and singularity.

Her recent exhibitions include CRASH TEST, La Panacée Centre D’Art Contemporain,  Montpellier; Marlborough Contemporary, Whitney Museum and Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; Hessel Museum of Art, New York; Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg; Pact Gallery, Paris; Annka Kultys Gallery, London; Nina Johnson, Miami; Gillmeier&Rech, Berlin; Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona; Martos Gallery, Los Angeles.