FRIEZE PROJECTS: NOW PLAYING
In partnership with Frieze
Press Release
Los Angeles, CA (February 2, 2023) – Frieze Los Angeles returns with an ambitious lineup of artistic programming that takes inspiration from the fair’s new location of Santa Monica Airport and extends the program’s engagement with the city’s cultural legacies. This year Frieze Projects features two site-specific strands of programming: a collaboration with Art Production Fund, onsite at the fair, and an expanded series of projects curated by Jay Ezra Nayssan and Del Vaz Projects installed in culturally significant sites across the westside of Los Angeles. Additionally, five nonprofit organizations from across Los Angeles are given a platform at the fair to showcase each organization’s mission linking art and social impact. Taking place from February 16-19, 2023, Frieze Los Angeles is supported by global lead partner Deutsche Bank, continuing a shared commitment to artistic excellence.
‘We are thrilled to present a diverse and innovative lineup of artistic programming at Frieze Los Angeles 2023,’ said Christine Messineo, (Director of Americas, Frieze). ‘“Now Playing” and “Against the Edge'' both demonstrate our connection to the city. Embedded in both strands of programming is an understanding of Los Angeles’ historical significance, the creative founders and foundation, the unique architecture, and the artistic community.’
FRIEZE PROJECTS: NOW PLAYING
Art Production Fund’s ‘Now Playing’ brings together a series of artworks that shine a light on the often-overlooked elements of everyday life in Los Angeles; the vehicles, street food, sports, aircraft, construction sites and deeper histories that blend into the background. The artists featured in ‘Now Playing’ provide a lens through which we can see these quotidian details anew; ever present but unseen, that make Los Angeles a city both complex and beloved.
‘Now Playing’ receives support from Art of Recovery, an initiative of the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs.Participating artists in ‘Now Playing’ include Autumn Breon, Chris Burden, Jose Dávila, Basil Kincaid, Divya Mehra, Ruben Ochoa, Alake Shilling and Jennifer West.
Burden’s awe-inspiring forty-foot skyscraper mimics the skyline of downtown’s architecture; Ruben Ochoa pays tribute to the street vendor community, connecting his personal narrative to his art making. Performances reveal not only the city’s daily life, such as Alake Shilling’s Buggy Ball, an artist-designed soccer ball activated by LAFC led scrimmages, but also its histories, as in Autumn Breon’s Leisure Lives, which honors Bay Street Beach, a seaside haven for Black Californians’ recreation in the early to mid-twentieth century.
● Autumn Breon, Leisure Lives (2023)
● Chris Burden, 40 Foot Stepped Skyscraper (2011)
● Jose Dávila, Acapulco chair stack (2023)
● Basil Kincaid, Dancing the Wind Walk (2023)
● Divya Mehra, A Practical Guide (2023)
● Ruben Ochoa, Revolution Carts and Class: C Mobile Gallery (2023)
● Alake Shilling, Buggy Ball (2019) – in association with LAFC
● Jennifer West, Hologram Phantom Limbs (2023)
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