This year, Art Basel Miami Beach will celebrate five years of Meridians, the show’s sector dedicated to large-scale works that might not otherwise have a place at the fair or in gallery settings. The 2024 selection, curated by Yasmil Raymond, offers a global and intergenerational mix of artists and installations that are ambitious in both scale and concept. Here below, five works not to be missed at this year’s fair.
Lee ShinJa
Legend; Dawn; Image of Light; Retrospective of Autumn, 1980s
Presented by Tina Kim Gallery
Tina Kim Gallery will show an installation of six woven tapestries by the pioneering Korean fiber artist, Lee ShinJa (b. 1930). This body of work, produced in the 1980s, captures Lee’s immense grief and despair following the 1982 death of her husband, the artist Jang Woon-Sang, while simultaneously embodying her resilience and will to persevere. The conflicting emotions coexist – dark hues of black and red absorb and reflect her pain, while magnificent pinks and oranges evoke sunrise over mountain ridges, recalling the landscape of her childhood. First exhibited as part of a 2023 career retrospective at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Gwacheon, Korea, this body of work captures a profound emotional duality – grief and hope sit in intricate, luminous harmony.
—Katherine McGrath
