"Booth B12"
Latifa Echakhch
PACE GALLERY
540 West 25th Street,NEW YORK NY 10001
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Frieze Art Fair
The Shed, Manhattan
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May 18 > 22, 2022
Booth B12
Pace is pleased to detail its presentation of new paintings by Moroccan-born, Switzerland-based artist Latifa Echakhch at the 2022 edition of Frieze New York.
The gallery’s booth will elaborate on Echakhch’s solo exhibition at Pace’s London space, Latifa Echakhch: Night Time, on view through May 4. The works at the fair also relate thematically to the artist’s presentation, titled The Concert, at the 59th Venice Biennale, where she is representing Switzerland. Spotlighting six paintings created by Echakhch in 2022, Pace’s Frieze New York booth brings to the fore the artist’s distinct visual vocabulary of signs, systems, and allusions.
Echakhch, who joined the gallery’s program in 2021, often explores the ways that everyday objects and images can be transformed—by way of enactments of erasure and destruction—into signifiers of identity, history, and mythology. Her practice spans painting, installation, sculpture, and sound works, and she has said that she has “no other goals but questioning the world around me.” Through sensorial abstractions that meditate on personal and societal conflicts, memory, time, and migration, Echakhch mines the political meanings of a diverse range of materials. In 2015, Echakhch was awarded the Zurich Art Prize and presented the solo exhibition Screen Shot at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich. She won the Marcel Duchamp Prize, France’s most vaunted art award, in 2013. Echakhch has exhibited her work at museums around the world including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Pinault Collection, Venice; and Tate Modern, London, among other institutions.
In her new body of work, Echakhch employs a naive fresco method of painting to transpose images of nightlife in Lausanne, Switzerland—created by photographer Sim Ouch, a friend of the artist—onto canvas. Featuring twisting and contorted limbs, Ouch’s high exposure photographs capture the frenetic energy of nighttime gatherings. Echakhch treats her canvases with a mix of concrete and vinyl glue, which, once set, she cuts in a labor-intensive, highly physical process that leaves cracks and fissures in the composition. These voids reveal images of fragmented bodies in the layer beneath.
Paintings in this series, which is the focus of Pace’s Frieze New York presentation, feature textured, sculptural surfaces that reflect the mountainous landscape surrounding Echakhch’s studio in Switzerland. Engaged with the histories of formalism and abstraction, these works are exhibited in a darkened environment, immersing viewers in enigmatic, disjointed figurative scenes and imposing, rocky formations.
mpefm USA fair art press release
Preview :
Wednesday Preview, May 18 (invitation only): 11am – 7pm
Public Days:
Thursday Preview, May 19 – Saturday, May 21: 11am – 7pm
Sunday, May 22: 11am – 5pm
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Pace is pleased to detail its presentation of new paintings by Moroccan-born, Switzerland-based artist Latifa Echakhch at the 2022 edition of Frieze New York.
The gallery’s booth will elaborate on Echakhch’s solo exhibition at Pace’s London space, Latifa Echakhch: Night Time, on view through May 4. The works at the fair also relate thematically to the artist’s presentation, titled The Concert, at the 59th Venice Biennale, where she is representing Switzerland. Spotlighting six paintings created by Echakhch in 2022, Pace’s Frieze New York booth brings to the fore the artist’s distinct visual vocabulary of signs, systems, and allusions.
Echakhch, who joined the gallery’s program in 2021, often explores the ways that everyday objects and images can be transformed—by way of enactments of erasure and destruction—into signifiers of identity, history, and mythology. Her practice spans painting, installation, sculpture, and sound works, and she has said that she has “no other goals but questioning the world around me.” Through sensorial abstractions that meditate on personal and societal conflicts, memory, time, and migration, Echakhch mines the political meanings of a diverse range of materials. In 2015, Echakhch was awarded the Zurich Art Prize and presented the solo exhibition Screen Shot at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich. She won the Marcel Duchamp Prize, France’s most vaunted art award, in 2013. Echakhch has exhibited her work at museums around the world including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Pinault Collection, Venice; and Tate Modern, London, among other institutions.
In her new body of work, Echakhch employs a naive fresco method of painting to transpose images of nightlife in Lausanne, Switzerland—created by photographer Sim Ouch, a friend of the artist—onto canvas. Featuring twisting and contorted limbs, Ouch’s high exposure photographs capture the frenetic energy of nighttime gatherings. Echakhch treats her canvases with a mix of concrete and vinyl glue, which, once set, she cuts in a labor-intensive, highly physical process that leaves cracks and fissures in the composition. These voids reveal images of fragmented bodies in the layer beneath.
Paintings in this series, which is the focus of Pace’s Frieze New York presentation, feature textured, sculptural surfaces that reflect the mountainous landscape surrounding Echakhch’s studio in Switzerland. Engaged with the histories of formalism and abstraction, these works are exhibited in a darkened environment, immersing viewers in enigmatic, disjointed figurative scenes and imposing, rocky formations.
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mpefm USA fair art press release
Preview :
Wednesday Preview, May 18 (invitation only): 11am – 7pm
Public Days:
Thursday Preview, May 19 – Saturday, May 21: 11am – 7pm
Sunday, May 22: 11am – 5pm
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