Frieze London 2025

For its first participation at the fair, Albarrán Bourdais is pleased to announce an engaging presentation by gallery artists Cristina Lucas, Iván Argote, Jose Dávila, Marco A. Castillo, Claudia Comte, Adrien Vescovi, SUPERFLEX and Koo Jeong A, inspired by and assembled around a new carpet installation by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster.

Evoking both astronomy and speculative fiction, González-Foerster’s carpet installation depicts a representation of a tapestry owned by the artist and which contains dozens of bibliographical references and other personal associations. The new textile work creates a liminal space between the public and the domestic realms, the outer and the inner worlds and the conscious and unconscious.

Drawing from shared themes of language and collective memory are works by Spanish artist Cristina Lucas’ “Tufting” series, maps in which bombed cities have been stitched, and the historical altar piece by Christian Boltanski “Monument”. On the other hand, works by artists such as Jose Dávila and Marco A. Castillo address the reconfiguration of visual icons: Dávila with a work from the Josef Albers-inspired series “Homage to the square” and Castillo with the geometric poster-like relief “Wakamba nervurado” that evokes the historical Cuban effort for modernist and utopian aesthetics.

Albarrán Bourdais’ presentation explores areas of visual and conceptual friction among the various works, manifesting in the form of irony, wonder and even incongruity.

Find us at booth B35 from October 15 to 19.