2nd Floor, 138 Jan Smuts Avenue Parkwood Johannesburg South Africa, 2000
Johannesburg: 26.1497° S, 28.0342° E London: 51.5072° N, 0.1276°
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'We have a number of works which address diasporic communities. One of these is a fragment of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Counterspace and Sumayya Vally, who is a South African architect. The team has gone into particular communities and buildings in London, for example the first mosques, hair-salons, Notting Hill Carnival and they have taken pieces of architecture and combined them and spliced them, and here they’ve created a gathering space. And in a way, it’s a kind of a microcosm of Frieze Sculpture because every year when we make this exhibition in the English Gardens of Regent’s Park, we see people who wouldn’t normally come here, and have conversations that they wouldn't normally have and enjoy this communal space in a very very safe way.'
Watch: Frieze Sculpture 2021: 'Colour, Playfulness, and Vibrancy'
14 September – 31 October 2021 English Gardens, The Regent’s Park, London
This year’s selection of works addresses themes including architecture, geopolitical power structures and environmental concern.
Curated for the ninth year by Clare Lilley (Director of Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park), the 2021 edition features Rasheed Araeen, Daniel Arsham, Anthony Caro, Gisela Colón, José Pedro Croft, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Stoyan Dechev, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Divya Mehra, Annie Morris, Isamu Noguchi, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Solange Pessoa, Vanessa da Silva, Tatiana Wolska, Rose Wylie and Yunizar. In addition, Serpentine will present Sumayya Vally, Counterspace, marking the first time a public institution has participated in Frieze Sculpture.