I saw some really inspirational work and some pieces caught my eye.

Frieze London and Frieze Masters’s 15 Best Booths – Artsy

The must-see booths of Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2019 feature a rare Botticelli, wild ceramics, and fresh work by Donna Huanca, Sterling Ruby, and more.
— Read on www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-15-best-booths-frieze-london-frieze-masters

 

 

Artist Donna Huanca, Installation views of Simon Lee Gallery’s booth at Frieze London, 2019.

I really enjoyed this Artists’s work. I had a few questions about why they had to tell us all about the artist’s heritage. The information changed the way I looked at the work but not in a good way it lost a lot of magic for me, maybe it was the way it was explained.

I think it was doing what they said she was trying to archive. I’m not sure linking her heritage didn’t alienate part of her audience or turn it into an advert for the country of her heritage. It also raised a question of why she wasn’t returning to that land which raises all sorts of very uncomfortable questions. I think they could have mentioned her heritage without saying where it was?

The more investigated the more I realised that my original take on the Art pieces was a purely superficial one. Her heritage was fundamental to what she was trying to convey.

It raises even further my questions about curating and documentation provided to support Artwork.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/arts/design/body-art-paint-donna-huanca.html

This article did help me reconnect with what I saw. A pleasing read.