Curtis Talwst Santiago
Memory and Material at Frieze Los Angeles 2024
At this year’s fair, artists explore how memory-charged materials open up new ways of interrogating questions of belonging, borders and the body
FRIEZE LOS ANGELES, NEWS | 23 JAN 24
At Frieze Los Angeles 2024, artists are grappling with the materiality of memory. Personal and collective histories snag in the warp and weft of our clothes, fade in photographs, are prized in jewelry boxes and are ground into the very pigments with which they paint. Pia Camil, Curtis Talwst Santiago, Carla Edwards, Josh Callaghan, Stephanie Syjuco, Blessing Ngobeni and Su Yu-Xin all explore the potential and limitations offered by working with materials that have their own stories attached.
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Curtis Talwst Santiago crafts tiny hand-held dioramas inside reclaimed jewelry boxes. These tableaux memorialize traumatic real-world events, like the murder of Michael Brown in 2014, and experiences from Santiago’s own life. In Soca in the Suburbs (2021), Santiago reflects on his childhood, creating a replica of a party in his parents’ basement from the 1970s.
Presented by Rachel Uffner Gallery.
January 25, 2024
