ARTIST: Nathalie Basoski
MATERIALS: Photography printed on cotton canvas
METHOD: Stitched and topstitched
Drawing from her photographic practice and personal memories of sport, Nathalie Basoski approaches the football field as both image and longing. Using her own photographs printed on textile, then cut and hand-stitched into large-scale compositions, she reconstructs the field as a fragmented surface shaped by absence, desire, and recollection.
Rather than depicting the field as a site of competition, the work reimagines it as a space of projection, where personal memory and collective imagination converge.
ARTIST STATEMENT
"The green field I never got to play. Growing up, one concrete court had to be everything: handball, basketball, and football. I played on it anyway and spent years dreaming of the open green field."
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nathalie Basoski (b. 1995, Zwolle, The Netherlands) is a Dutch-Macedonian artist based in Brooklyn,NY. Working across photography and textile-based practices, she explores themes of memory,displacement, and foreignness. Combining film photography with textiles such as linen, curtains,and clothing, she creates large-scale, quilt-like compositions that transform domestic and everydayimages into fragmented visual narratives. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at theMuseum of Contemporary Art of Macedonia, Susquehanna Art Museum, Amos Eno Gallery, and BWAC.
