Milcah Bassel

There are things to play with at “Imaginal Cells”: not just Milcah Bassel's terra cotta vessels with their handsome surfaces, their smoothed apertures, and cool darkness within, but other objects to pick up and manipulate.

By asking you to contemplate what her works lack as well as what they possess, Bassel has pulled off a neat conjurer’s trick. She’s managed to fill her negative space to the brim with significance.

Absence, it turns out, is a tough thing to pinpoint or even locate. Even where there’s nothing, there’s always something.