A new show in London presents seven young New York-based artists who are pushing against the borders between refined aesthetics and primal materiality.
The visceral, the grotesque, the unstable – what lies beneath the foundations of a respectable society? It is a question preoccupying seven New York-based artists, who are considering life’s raw undercurrents in group exhibition ‘Base Materialism’, on show at London's Albion Jeune gallery until 30 August 2025. Named after the concept coined by 20th-century French philosopher Georges Bataille, the notion looked beyond traditional definitions of materialism to a more primal way of thinking.
July 11, 2025
