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The artist, poet and chef Precious Okoyomon, winner of the 2021 Frieze Artist Award Sam Penn
The Frieze Artist Award, which provides an opportunity for an emerging artist to present an installation at the Frieze New York fair, went this year to the highly versatile Brooklyn-based creator Precious Okoyomon. Last week, the Nigerian-American artist, poet and chef performed in a piece conceived specifically for the fair’s site, the Shed, joining friends to ascend steel platforms covered with reflective material and netting for the installation
This God Is A Slow Recovery. Drawing on the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel, Okoyomon read from their poem
Precious Okoyomon. Photo by Sarah Cascone.
New York’s Frieze Art Fair opens today, but the prestigious Frieze Artist Award commission, a performance featuring artist and poet Precious Okoyomon, has already come and gone, staged quietly last week before a small, socially distanced crowd.
When art collectors descend on the Shed for the city’s first in-person art fair since March 2020, they will only be able to experience
This God Is a Slow Recovery (2021) in video form, playing at the fair and streaming online.
A cacophony of sound and music, the piece saw Okoyomon and other performers perched on black platforms decorated with silver and camouflage netting in the center of the Shed’s performance hall. A collaboration with Los Angeles-based industrial designer Jonathan Olivares, the set was meant to recall the collapse of the Tower of Babel, encircled with branches, leaves, and a scattering of yellow flowers.
Frieze New York 2021: social activism and social distancing
Frieze New York 2021: social activism and social distancing
Frieze New York 2021 will take place at The Shed in Manhattan, 5 – 9 May 2021. The fair’s 10th edition promises to engage physical and online audiences through social justice initiatives and augmented reality projects. Here’s what to expect.
Exterior view of Frieze New York 2021’s new venue, The Shed, designed by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
Photography: Brett Beyer
Frieze New York 2021 is boldly going ahead as planned this May; a glimmering indication that the city is inching towards a return to normalcy. In pre-pandemic times, May was undoubtedly one of the busiest months on the New York calendar. Traditionally kicking off with the Met Gala and the concurrent opening of the Costume Institute’s fashion exhibition (both of which will be held in September this year) and ending with the close of the International Contemporary Furniture
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