Figuring It Out

Barbora Zilinskaitė's biomorphic wonders ask us to rethink objects and how we relate to them

- HANNAH MARTIN

An art fair in Basel, Switzerland, is not the first place you'd expect to find a figure stretched out, catching some rays. But that's where Sunbather, Barbora Žilinskaitė's first outdoor piece of functional sculpture, is making its debut. "I imagined a reclining form in a garden next to a house," the Brussels-based talent explains of the leggy bench, on view from June 10 through 16 at Design Miami/ Basel as part of Friedman Benda gallery's booth.