Yousha Bashir
Liste Year
Year of Birth
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2023
1989
Iran
Dastan
At Liste Art Fair Basel 2023, Dastan presents a duo exhibition of works by emerging young Iranian artists Rana Dehghan (b. 1986, Tehran) and Yousha Bashir (b. 1989, Manila). The fair will be open to public view from June 12, 2023, through June 18. This is Dastan’s fourth presentation at Liste. The electric landscapes of Yousha and the glazing ceramics of Rana explore the notion of the ‘self’ about one’s surroundings. In doing so, they reevaluate such concepts as materiality, dichotomies such as the digital/virtual versus the real, self vs. shadow, awareness vs. spontaneity, and spirit vs. body.
The artistic process for Yousha Bashir is meticulously systematized, engineered, and leveled. His images are more or less musically composed as he pieces together elements within a system. He begins by sketching out digital images, completes multiple fragmented peaks, and ends up with a futuristic landscape. Forms thread the line between virtual and physical means of being. Geometric shapes in his acrylic on canvas paintings indicate a distinct, objective presence, but what surrounds them —pixelated or curved lines— bring fluidity to the surface. The play of abstraction and depiction in the works of ...
Yousha Bashir (b. 1989) is an Iranian post-digital artist currently active in his hometown of Tehran. He studied Visual Arts at Farhangian University (2011). Bashir works across media to create paintings, sculptures, and installation pieces. Yousha Bashir is a dynamic artist whose work has undergone significant changes in style and output. His "Landscape" series (Inner, Outer, Ultimate, Infinite), as well as his self-portraits, are relational studies of form with the frame (the viewers' perception) and the space surrounding the frame. He thus challenges the painting’s solid framework by exploring the relationship between the digital realm and the physicality of painting. His vibrant and luminous imagery question the definition of the creative space and the creative loci in the digital age and computer graphics. The self and how it is separated from the real world is one of the central explorations throughout his works. With the loss of image clarity in the process of a "digital translation", he arrives at frames that open to a new two-dimensional world defined by restrictions and opportunities each possesses. Bashir has held six solo exhibitions, including his latest, "The Infinite Continuum" (Parallel Circuit, October-November 2021), and participated in more than 30 exhibitions, including at the Frieze Los Angeles (2022) as well as Art Dubai (2020 and 2021) with Dastan's Basement.
Installation View of Yousha Bashir's "The Infinite Continuum" at Parallel Circuit, 2021
