Meghna Yesudas interviews Basile Boon in Dirty magazine issue III on death and destruction.
Boon’s invention of his own mythology as expressed through his sculptural and architectural work is part-joke, part-desacralisation of social code. His splattering laugh tells of the humour of it all - an artist with no interest in creating a religion or cult, working with ceramics, fresco murals, clay or leather to build his own mythology. But Boon is certain that he needs to be jovial in his work, and that art is meant to be fun and ironic, of which the finest critic can be no other than a child. In his universe, utilitarian objects are ever poetic and meaningful. Life can be tough as it is, he knows.
