Frieze

Press release

For Frieze London 2023 Christian Andersen presents a group presentation from the gallery program with Patricia L. Boyd, Julia Haller, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Benjamin Hirte, and Coco Young. 



Boyd’s work Ceiling Fragment 1/5 (2023) is a large-scale floating sculpture emulating the ceiling of her psychoanalyst’s office in New York. The work addresses the architecture from which it hangs while operating as a metaphor for the constitution of an interior individual mental space, and, conversely, societal expectations of uniformity. Another centrepiece is Hirte’s table set in the tradition of artist furniture. Carved into the surface of the table is four different emotional states, their shape mimic emojis used in digital communication. The two wall works by Hirte are replicas of facade ornaments drawing on the traditions from the 19th century. Haller will present new works from her continued exploration of the tension between figuration and abstraction in contemporary painting. Meineche Hansen will show a new work from her recent series Hook (2023). The work is based on designs of rudimentary meat hooks, while her remake of moulds used in both industrial and artisanal casting are emblematic of the mass-produced reproduction of objects. Young will present a new figurative painting from her ongoing series of hallucinatory landscapes that both borrows and re-imagines the impressionist tradition in painting.

The presentation illustrates the variety of artistic expressions in the gallery program. Formally and theoretically diverse, the works gather around inquiries of identity, psychology, and material history. Through their various approaches, the artists all engage the subjective predispositions of their production and comment on how these aspects affect and are affected by both personal and public politics. The presentation points to the materialisation of artworks through the self.