Silverlens returns for the 2026 edition of Art Basel in Basel with works by four intergenerational Southeast Asian artists, presented across the main fair and Parcours sector: Geraldine Javier, Yee I-Lann, Nicole Coson, and Pacita Abad. For each artist, materials exceed themselves: a tablecloth becomes a painting, a shipping container becomes a printing tool, 267 paintings hide inside a volcano's silhouette, a woven mat becomes a counter to the colonial table. A five-minute walk from the fair, Nicole Coson presents a suspended installation of aluminum-cast oyster shells as part of the Parcours sector for public art.

Tracing parallel investigations into image, structure, gesture, and spatial perception, this iteration brings together a focused selection of works from Southeast Asian contemporary practice articulated across the past three decades.

The Coconut Tree Methodology is both reflection and proposition: to sense the world and grasp the changes that are shaping it right now.

The world is but colliding forces, an amalgam of signals, objects, inherited stories, and gestures. Everything we encounter bears a charge, an essence. Kawayan De Guia’s instinctual approach to art-making dialogues with those broader gravitational forces in continuous expansion and contraction.