Ivana Bašić - Metempsychosis: The Passion of Pneumatics

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A pioneer of post-humanist sculpture, Ivana Bašić's (Born 1986 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, lives and works in New York) work explore the constantly shifting biological, physical, and metaphysical identities of humanity. Charged by the artist’s childhood experiences of chaos, brutality and genocidal violence brought on by the collapse of Yugoslavia, Bašić’s sculptures addresses sweeping themes of intergenerational trauma, philosophical metamorphosis, post humanist feminism, religion, and the quest for immortality, but these far-reaching subjects are refracted through the disarmingly tender gestures of the fragile bodies in her work.