Discover the 100 galleries participating in ‘OVR: Pioneers'
Author Emily McDermott sheds light on seven featured practitioners whose work has redefined what art can be
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![Agnes Denes, Tree Mountain - A Living Time Capsule - 11,000 Trees, 11,000 People, 400 Years (Triptych), 1992 – 2013. Courtesy the artist; acb Gallery, Budapest; and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City.](https://dza2a2ql7zktf.cloudfront.net/binaries-cdn/dqzqcuqf9/image/fetch/q_auto,dpr_auto,c_fill,f_auto,w_auto/https://d2u3kfwd92fzu7.cloudfront.net/asset/cms/Art_Basel_OVR_Pioneers_Agnes_Gedes_ACB.jpg)
![Antoni Tàpies, Jo parlo amb la mà (I speak with my hand), 1999. Courtesy of Helly Nahmad Gallery, New York City.](https://dza2a2ql7zktf.cloudfront.net/binaries-cdn/dqzqcuqf9/image/fetch/q_auto,dpr_auto,c_fill,f_auto,w_auto/https://d2u3kfwd92fzu7.cloudfront.net/asset/cms/Art_Basel_OVR_Pioneers_Antoni_Tapies_Helly-Nahmad.jpg)
![Jac Leirner, Corpus Delicti (Blankets), 1993. Courtesy of Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Isabella Matheus.](https://dza2a2ql7zktf.cloudfront.net/binaries-cdn/dqzqcuqf9/image/fetch/q_auto,dpr_auto,c_fill,f_auto,w_auto/https://d2u3kfwd92fzu7.cloudfront.net/asset/cms/Art_Basel_OVR_Pioneers_Jac_Leirner_Fortes-DAloia_Gabriel.jpg)
![Gordon Parks, The Invisible Man, Harlem, New York, 1952. Copyright: Copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation. Courtesy of The Gordon Parks Foundation and Alison Jacques Gallery, London.](https://dza2a2ql7zktf.cloudfront.net/binaries-cdn/dqzqcuqf9/image/fetch/q_auto,dpr_auto,c_fill,f_auto,w_auto/https://d2u3kfwd92fzu7.cloudfront.net/asset/cms/Art_Basel_OVR_Pioneers_Gordon_Parks_Alison_Jacques_Gallery-1.jpg)
![Left: Vaginal Davis, Divy The Booty of Monoglots, 2017. Right: Maggie Song of the Fibonaccis, 2020. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin.](https://dza2a2ql7zktf.cloudfront.net/binaries-cdn/dqzqcuqf9/image/fetch/q_auto,dpr_auto,c_fill,f_auto,w_auto/https://d2u3kfwd92fzu7.cloudfront.net/asset/cms/Art_Basel_OVR_Pioneers_Vaginal_Davis_Isabella_Bortolozzi.jpg)
![Tatsuo Miyajima, Counter Circle No.14(G/28) (detail), 1993. Courtesy of Scai The Bathhouse, Tokyo. Photo by Nobutada Omote.](https://dza2a2ql7zktf.cloudfront.net/binaries-cdn/dqzqcuqf9/image/fetch/q_auto,dpr_auto,c_fill,f_auto,w_auto/https://d2u3kfwd92fzu7.cloudfront.net/asset/cms/Art_Basel_OVR_Pioneers_Tatsuo_Miyajima_SCAI_the_bathhouse.jpg)
Author Emily McDermott sheds light on seven featured practitioners whose work has redefined what art can be
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