For Frieze London 2024, Night Gallery is pleased to present work by by Marcel Alcalá, Zaam Arif, Cathleen Clarke, Esiri Erheriene-Essi, Márcia Falcão, Veronica Fernandez, Bambou Gili, Wanda Koop, Tidawhitney Lek, Anne Libby, Tahnee Lonsdale, Catalina Ouyang, Claire Tabouret, Kayla Witt and Clare Woods.
Across a variety of disciplines, these artists reimagine structures of kinship and care. Their artworks emphasize literal and metaphorical interior space as they expand notions of family. Matriarchal and generational bonds become inextricable from and inspirational to expression itself.
Alcalá and Tabouret paint their inherited and chosen communities in Los Angeles. Performance, masks, and elements of their Mexican-American heritage are frequent motifs for Alcalá, while Tabouret’s compositions evoke the nostalgia that fills our personal archives.
Clarke, who will present her debut solo exhibition with Night Gallery in January 2025, paints ambiguous, dream-like scenes of childhood memories and her youth in rural Illinois. Family photographs and narratives inform her oil and acrylic compositions. Painter Esiri Erheriene-Essi is captivated by historical images, objects, and documents which can be used to examine both individual and shared memories.
Ouyang’s sculptures juxtapose found images and materials as they consider maternal inheritance. The artist raises questions about what is tender, precise, and ad hoc. Woods, whose painting practice evolves out of an early career in sculpture, imbues her oil-on-aluminum compositions of heirlooms and animals with a deep sense of domesticity and psychic space.
Night Gallery’s booth suggests the potency of family and memory within the creative process. As these artists work through their studio processes, they rethink how to be in relation to one another, starting with our earliest attachments.