AGLAÉ BASSENS’ SOLO DEBUT AT ICA MIAMI
Aglaé Bassens: Emptiful is the debut solo museum presentation for the Brooklyn-based painter at Institute of Contemporary Art Miami.
In these recent works, Bassens draws from her experience of becoming a new parent, using the opportunity to take on the duality of life’s passage—love and grief, fulfillment and apprehension.
With a practice rooted in observation and critical analysis, Aglaé Bassens creates alluring and poignant depictions of everyday life. Each painting is presented from the artist’s perspective and prominently features tender and meditative moments that reflect on intimacy, shared experience, and memory.
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Aglaé Bassens, Remote, 2021. Oil on canvas, 32 x 48 in. Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Museum purchase with funds provided by Ryan Lee, Rachel Cole and Sam Sherr. Photo: Jenny Gorman. Courtesy the artist, HESSE FLATOW, New York, and 12.26, Dallas/Los Angeles
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Installation view: "Aglaé Bassens: Emptiful," at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. May 5 - Oct 29, 2023. Photo Zachary Balber
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Installation view: "Aglaé Bassens: Emptiful," at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. May 5 - Oct 29, 2023. Photo Zachary Balber
The artist says, “I like to paint images that are sincere and particular, yet could belong in anyone’s photo album, using the everyday as a vehicle for collective emotion. For ‘Emptiful’ I have painted scenes from my life as well as pictures found online: they could be my memories or yours, and the context could be celebratory or solemn”.
Aglaé Bassens (b. 1986, Mons, Belgium) received a BFA from the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University (2007) and an MFA in painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (2011). Bassens’s works can be found in the permanent collections of ICA Miami and Colección SOLO, Madrid.
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