Fin Simonetti in Wallpaper

July 9, 2025

Meet the New York-based artists destabilising the boundaries of society

By: Hannah Silver

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.

For artists Ambera Wellmann, Cindy Ji Hye Kim, Fin Simonetti, Ivana Bašić, Rachel Rossin, Shuyi Cao and Shuo Hao, it’s a concept that can take shape in destabilised forms. Often alien or fragmented, their work embraces what society represses, in a faithful homage to Bataille’s rejection of a sanitary artifice, drawing from elements that are both repulsive and attractive.

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