We are pleased to announce Alexander Basil's first institutional exhibition and first solo exhibition in Asia at the X Museum in Beijing. 'Hiding in Plain Sight' will be open to the public from 23rd of March and will remain on view through to 30th May, 2024.
Basil’s practice explores aspects of psychology, self-creation, and perceived identity through figures and anthropomorphized objects that create a dissected depiction of the self. The visual world within the paintings revolves around Basil’s everyday life and his existential examinations through banal objects and architecture directly taken from his personal space. Woven throughout this domesticity are self-portraits of varying degrees of abstraction featuring a bald man with almond shaped eyes and intricately depicted chest hair. Oftentimes, multiple self-portraits aggregate within one composition into a variety of narrative characters or alter egos interacting with one another and the pictorial environment to explore introspection with a corresponding awareness of the subjectivity of external perception charged with a darkly ironic humour.
March 16th, 2024
