For Frieze London 2023, Night Gallery is delighted to present work by Reza Aramesh, Samara Golden, Tahnee Lonsdale, Sarah Miska, Kemi Onabulé, Connor Marie Stankard, Ben Tong, and Clare Woods. The included artworks span disparate media and explore notions of presence and absence, remembrance, and the uncanny. These pieces are both haunted and haunting. They evoke the bodies that made them, the domestic interiors that populate our memories, and the otherworldly stories that shaped our childhoods.
Lonsdale paints ethereal figures who tend to each other in an alternate, emotional realm, while Woods’s visceral, oil-on-aluminum depictions of flowers and a decorative bowl reconsider the boundaries between the familiar and the peculiar. Miska takes inspiration from ghost tales and urban legends to render a pale, spooked horse, while Golden’s polystyrene figures reference an impending apocalypse—their titles, 90 seconds to midnight, clear people, suggest that doom, whether via nuclear threat or climate change, is imminent. As darkness approaches, we celebrate a coven of artists who both share their earthbound visions and imagine possibilities that aren’t quite of this world.
