We are thrilled to be participating in Basel Social Club presenting new works by Cudelice Brazelton IV.

Basel Social Club
Jun 15 – 21, 2025, 2 pm – midnight
Rittergasse 21-25, CH-4051 Basel

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People often talk about codes in my work, and some understand them while others are confused. For me, these codes are about how different cuts and techniques translate into a more physical and pointed message. It’s not just about the material itself, but the social or personal reasons behind it. It’s not just an aesthetic cut; it’s about body practicality and how things operate on multiple levels – Cudelice Brazelton IV

Materiality is essential in Brazelton’s practice. He works with industrial materials reminiscent of his own US reality but also focuses on materials common to everyone, such as skin. It is evident that skin is a heavily-charged signifier that can dictate social relations. This material is often literally zoomed in on, becoming a prominent point of his examination. Moreover, the artist’s gestures of scratching, rubbing, and scarifying reference skin abrasion. The creases and scrapings seen on Brazelton’s pieces can be read as allusions to people scratching and picking at their bodies as well as engaging in cosmetic rituals in the name of self-expression. The markings, like tattoos, have at once very specific meanings only familiar to members of the same group, as well as show a universal human desire to communicate one’s difference.

Cudelice Brazelton IV (b. 1991, Dallas) lives and works in Frankfurt. He currently holds a teaching position at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, and he is a graduate of the Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (2017-2021).

Selected group and solo exhibitions include: Férocité à domicile (Ferocity at Home), La Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris (2025), Mortal Surface, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen (2024), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff-Stipendium. Die Ausstellung 2023, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (2023), Some Resonance, Wschód New York (2023), Scurried, Lodos, Mexico City (2023), A Curve of Many, Murmurs, Los Angeles (2022), Starter Kit, Barbara Weiss, Berlin (2021), In Practice: Another Echo, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York (2018).