🪩🕺PROFOUND LIKE ABBA🕺🪩ALEXANDER BASIL’S self-portraits at Nevven in Gothenburg are a bit banal, almost kitschy. At the same time, they harbour something deeply dark. Review by ALBIN BERGSTRÖM. 👉👉LINK IN BIO. “As I look closely, I see that the pupils in the large face in the foreground are angel wings. This is one of the most beautiful moments in the whole show, and a possible reference to the heart shaped eyes of Michelangelo’s David. When paired with the mundane boredom of everyday life and filtered through his illustrative style of painting, Basil’s references to mythology, renaissance sculpture, and baroque cherubs combine to form an eclecticism that I read as a queer sensibility”. 📸 a) Alexander Basil, Untitled, 60 x 50 cm, 2022. b) Alexander Basil, Untitled, detail, 130 x 110 cm. c) Alexander Basil, Untitled, installation view, 200 x 200, cm, 2022. d) Alexander Basil, Untitled, 32x28 cm, 2022.