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.
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 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.
