Focus continues to evolve as a platform for younger voices in the art community. This year, featuring 33 galleries from 19 countries, highlights for the Focus section at Frieze London include:
Joy Labinjo – ahead of her solo exhibition at BALTIC, Newcastle in October 2019 – with work informed by the artist’s British-Nigerian heritage (Tiwani Contemporary, London);
A solo by New York-based Troy Michie focused on African American and Latinx cultural experience, immigration and queerness (Company Gallery, New York);
Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga’s solo project commenting on “A Law for Regulating Negro and Indian Slaves in the Night Time” passed in 1713 (Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin);
Artist, filmmaker and writer Sophia Al-Maria’s solo installation, coinciding with her Art Now show at Tate Britain (Project Native Informant, London);
Tang Dixin’s latest iteration of his ongoing performance project Rest is the Best Way of Revolution (AIKE, Shanghai) employing live bodycasts;
A presentation of plaster sculptures by Los Angeles-based artist Karon Davis together with paintings by Californian artist Gary Lang (Wilding Cran, Los Angeles);
Performance artist, filmmaker and musician Kembra Pfahler’s solo presentation with Emalin (London), combining Future Feminism and the underground scenes from 1970s’ Los Angeles and 1980s’ New York;
An installation by Nicholas Pope, entitled Yahweh and The Seraphim, conceived as a non-denominational chapel, and continuing the artist’s overarching body of work exploring belief and lived experience (The Sunday Painter, London); and
A solo project by Rolf Nowotny, who will recreate the former home and garden of his grandmother, to explore how dementia challenges our conception of subjecthood (Christian Andersen, Copenhagen).