Frieze Seoul 2023 - Booth C16: LATIFA ECHAKHCH, AYSHA E ARAR, DOUGLAS GORDON, SIMON FUJIWARA, ARIEL SCHLESINGER

Working in painting, sculpture and installations, the Moroccan-born artist Latifa Echakhch (El Khnansa, 1974) chooses easily recognisable objects invested with a domestic and/or social burden, which she silences through destruction, deletion or by restoring them. This thereby deprives them of their usage value - pushing their function into oblivion - in order to free the memories attached to them. She summons memories and frees the ghosts that emerge from these objects. The work of Latifa Echakhch is simultaneously conceptual and romantic, both political and poetic. Echakhch won the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013 and  represented Switzerland at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. She was the invited artist on Metzelplatz during Art Basel 2023, in Basel.

 

“I don’t know how to draw realistic paintings, I draw from the world of imagination and fantasy. This allows me to merge imagination with reality and all the contradictions that I live in content”.

 

Douglas Gordon is a Scottish artist who creates work that questions the complexities of memory and perception. Gordon works across a wide range of media including film, photography, text, and audio. Born in Glasgow in 1966, Gordon studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1984 to 1988 and continued his studies at Slade School of Art in London, graduating in 1990. He currently works and lives between Glasgow, Berlin and New York. Among others, he won the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998.

Simon Fujiwara (born 1982, London) is a British Japanese artist living and working in Berlin. His work takes multiple forms including theme park style rides, wax figures, robotic cameras, ‘make-up’ paintings and short films that address the complexity and contradictions of identity in a postinternet, hyper-capitalist world. Fujiwara often investigates themes of popular interest such as tourist attractions, famous icons, historic narratives and mass media imagery and has collaborated with the advertising and entertainment industries to produce his work in a process he describes as ‘hyper-engagement’ with dominant forms of cultural production. His work can be seen as a complex response to the human effects of image fetish, technology and social media on his generation. His works were shown in prominent institutions such as Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Whitechapel Gallery, London; MAXXI, Rome; 9th Berlin Biennale; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris. Simon Fujiwara’s works are part of numerous prestigious collections including The Israel Mu-seum, Jerusalem; The Tate Collection, London; Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Solomon R. Gug-genheim Museum, New York; Galeries Lafayette, Paris; MoMa, New York; The Prada Collection, Milan.