Focus: Emerging Artists Showcase Works at Frieze London 2022

The Focus section at Frieze London is dedicated to showcasing works from today’s most innovative and inspiring emerging artists and spaces.
 
Highlights include, among many others:
 
Gabriel Acevedo Velarde (80M2 Livia Benavides) seeks hidden elements within the relationships among culture, power and society; based on scientific theories and established clichés, he creates ways to dismantle the unbreakable, as if behind all universal truth was a mystery to be solved.
 
Selome Muleta (Addis Fine Art) is one of the most exciting young female artists to emerge from the Ethiopian visual arts scene in recent years. She crafts rich internal worlds through the colour-laden interior scenes of her canvases, which frequently depict women in states of inner reflection.

Marcin Dudek (Edel Assanti) explores the politics of identity and space, conflating hooliganism, memory and the architecture of social experience; using salvaged materials and archive footage of stadium violence, his installation ‘Control Room’ recreated the security surveillance hub of a stadium.

As a second-generation immigrant from China, Michael Ho’s (Gallery Vacancy) works investigate the notions of the Chinese diaspora, cultural mismatch, and subsequently cultural rediscovery through his painting practice. 

Engaging with the burden of nostalgia and state-sanctioned processes of constructing collective memory, Mahmoud Khaled (Gypsum) records the presence of marginalised bodies through absence.
 
Jennifer Carvalho’s (Helena Anrather) paintings include references from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of connecting contemporary crises to historical narratives.
Jennifer Carvalho, Study of grace and beauty, 2022, Oil on canvas, 33 x 48 in (83.8 x 121.9 cm), courtesy of the artist and Helena Anrather

Rania Stephan’s (Marfa) short films, videos and documentaries offer a personal perspective on political events; with her works anchored in Lebanon, she intertwines poetics and raw images in which chance encounters are captured with compassion and humour.
 
Peggy Ahwesh’s (Microscope) pigment prints, video sculpture, and 360 degree touchscreen videos on view address issues of displacement, cultural identity, world events as portrayed by news media and the role played by our hyper-connected society.
 
Joy Labinjo’s (Tiwani Contemporary) large-scale figurative paintings often depict intimate scenes of historical and contemporary life, both real and imagined and often based on figures appearing in personal and archival imagery that include family photographs, found images and historical material.
 
 FOCUS SECTION
 
80M2 Livia Benavides, Gabriel Acevedo Velarde
Addis Fine Art, Selome Muleta
Nir Altman, Josephine Baker
Helena Anrather, Jennifer Carvalho
Blindspot Gallery, Trevor Yeung
Matthew Brown, Kenturah Davis
Company Gallery, Hayden Dunham, Women's History Museum
Damien & The Love Guru, Emanuele Marcuccio
Derosia, Zoe Barcza
Edel Assanti, Marcin Dudek
Emalin, Daiga Grantina
Gianni Manhattan, Barbara Kapusta
Ginsberg, Daniel De La Barra
Green Art Gallery, Maryam Hoseini
Gypsum, Mahmoud Khaled
Hot Wheels Athens, Marina Xenofontos
Hua International, Rafael Domenech
In Lieu, Maren Karlson
Galerie Noah Klink, Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann
LambdaLambdaLambda, Tatjana Danneberg (shared with Dawid Radziszewski)
Kiang Malingue, Nabuqi 
Marfa', Rania Stephan
Microscope Gallery, Peggy Ahwesh 
Édouard Montassut, Hélène Fauquet
PM8 / Francisco Salas, Elena Narbutaitė
Dawid Radziszewski, Tatjana Danneberg (shared with LambdaLambdaLambda)
Soft Opening, Rhea Dillon
Sweetwater, Jesse Stecklow
Sophie Tappeiner, Angelika Loderer
Temnikova & Kasela, Kaarel Kurismaa
Tiwani Contemporary, Joy Labinjo, Umar Rashid 
Union Pacific, Agnieszka Polska
Gallery Vacancy, Michael Ho
Vitrine, Tarek Lakhrissi
Wschód, Joanna Woś

On the cover: Selome muleta 9 acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 165x230CM 2021

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