For Frieze London 2023, Edel Assanti presents new and previously unseen works by five artists spanning film, painting, photography and sculpture.
An immersive video presentation introduces Julianknxx’s practice in an art fair context for the first time, coinciding with his Barbican Curve commission Chorus in Rememory of Flight (September 2023 – February 2024) and inclusion in the Tate Modern’s exhibition, A World in Common, running concurrently with Frieze. Julianknxx’s interdisciplinary practice merges his poetry with performance, film and music, drawing on West African oral traditions to challenge fixed ideas of identity and unravel linear Western historical and socio-political narratives.
The stand comprises large paintings by Sylvia Snowden and Lonnie Holley. Concurrent to the fair, Edel Assanti opens Snowden’s first UK solo show at the gallery, featuring eight large-scale paintings from her seminal M Street series. This follows her receiving the Spirit Now London prize at Frieze Masters last year, and her inclusion in the Whitechapel Gallery’s 2023 exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint. Holley recently featured in the Royal Academy exhibition, Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers (March – June 2023) and currently has a solo exhibition at MOCA North Miami (May – October 2023). The presented works were created as part of the Mahler&LeWitt Studios residency programme this summer.
Noémie Goudal debuts new photographic work for the fair, following the recent acquisition of Giant Phoenix VI by the V&A, and Tate Modern’s presentation of her acclaimed multimedia performance ANIMA in July 2023, previously presented at Centre Pompidou (2023). Her latest work develops her expansive series, Post Atlantica, examining our planet’s temporal and geographic strata from the perspective of ‘deep time’, while drawing inspiration from the scientific research in paleoclimatology. In 2024, Goudal will present a solo show at Mostyn.
Oren Pinhassi’s totemic sculptures, made from sand and plaster methodically layered by hand over welded steel skeletons, explore the logic of mourning as a site of metamorphosis. His first UK institutional solo exhibition at Mostyn (July – October 2023) runs concurrently with his inclusion in a group show at ICA Philadelphia (September – December 2023) and the Chicago Architecture Biennial (September 2023 - January 2024). Pinhassi’s installations examine the relationship between the human figure, nature and the built environment by conjuring evocative and erotic sites, queering categories and intersecting public and private exchange.
