About – Basiedji

“Art is an autonomous act; the last bastion of the self. Its only point of reference, only sovereign, is the individual artist, not society. The degree to which this opposition is negotiated between the two, defines them both.
This website is merely a means of contact with the world beyond the studio, and the writing desk. The Web is a pernicious watering hole; hardly a place to present intellectual property, that is work in progress, for its own sake. Hence, the tentative nature of the information about my studio practice, and its nonexistence about my scholarly work on this site.”

basiedji is a figurative painter, and an art historian, holding an MA in Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories from OCAD University.