Art Production Fund Takes Frieze Beyond the Booths
Frieze Projects returns to Los Angeles with a stellar showcase of artworks, no ticket required.
Summary
- Art Production Fund presents Body & Soul for Frieze Projects, its collaborative public art program with Frieze
- The exhibition debuts eight installations and performs staged around the city, prioritizing civic engagement over exclusivity
- Featured artists include Dan John Anderson, Polly Borland, Cosmas & Damian Brown, Kohshin Finley, Shana Hoehn, Amanda Ross-Ho and Kelly Wall
Frieze Projects makes a return to Los Angeles with a fresh suite of artworks planted around the city. A collaborative platform between Frieze and Art Production Fund (APF), the initiative makes up the fair’s public art program, a way for it to broaden its typical art reach with new commissions by Angeleno artists. This year’s showcase, titled Body & Soul, gathers eight performances and installations, each exploring themes of existence, communion, embodiment and ritual.
On a soccer field just beyond the fair, Amanda Ross-Ho debuts “Untitled Orbit (MANUAL MODE),“ a durational meditation on labor, where the artist rolls a 16-foot inflatable Earth during opening hours. Close by, Australian photographer Polly Borland lifts the veil on “BOD,“ her largest sculpture to date. Cast in aluminum, the seven-foot-tall figure expands her signature soft, wrapped forms into a simultaneously vulnerable and imposing presence.
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Woodworker Shana Hoehn embeds floating figures into “Deadfall”, her first large-scale public sculpture carved from a ficus sourced through the city’s urban forest program, evoking decay and transformation. Kohshin Finley, in a fitting next move after his recent Jeffrey Deitch solo, presents “The Piano Player,” a body of large-scale stoneware vessels displayed in shadow-box shelving, while Dan John Anderson exhibits two wood, glass and bronze sculptures, “Threshold” and “Terra Seer,” which tap into the totemic, light and shadow.
Beyond the fairgrounds, Kelly Wall reanimates a dormant Westwood Village newsstand with “Everything Must Go,” where glass “magazine” covers fill the structure and gradually disappear over the course of the week. Finally, Cosmas & Damian Brown mounts interactive fountain works that invite touch, as smoke and soundscapes shift through rearrangeable metal vessels.
Body & Soul is now on view until March 1. Alongside the presentation, Brown will lead a special youth workshop on February 28, as part of APF’s Art Sundae program, leading up to a collaborative public art installation between the artists and children.
