Dissonance and Yearning in Basel 2024

Closing the spring art season, the leading presentations at Art Basel and June Art Fair centered the human experience, a nostalgia for a time before the encroachment of AI and digital technology as well as continued focus on Indigeneity, anti-colonialism, and geopolitics.

Agnes Denes. “Honouring Wheatfield – A Confrontation,” 2024. Basel Messeplatz. Photographed by the writer.