'As a native Miamian, Bas is no stranger to the friction tourism can bring into local communities... His characters - notably all white males - are presented along a spectrum: variously sympathetic and naive, but also smug, entitled, and disengaged. "It's a mix of people behaving badly, but also some of them, I think, are just sweet individuals," Bas explained.'
'The Visitors probe what’s behind the impulse to document ourselves next to these significant objects and landmarks, circling the point where searching slips into self absorption. They highlight how the motivation behind our travels has shifted, moving away from a Grand Tour-eque pursuit of knowledge to a pursuit of social capital.' — Stephanie Gavan
Image: Hernan Bas, Security in the shape of a silhouette (Audio tour, the kitchen atAlcatraz prison), 2025Acrylic on linen
127 x 101.6 cm
50 x 40 in
© Hernan Bas
Courtesy the artist, Lehmann Maupin, Perrotin and Victoria Miro
May 12 2026
