COMMISSIONS ANNOUNCED FOR FRIEZE PROJECTS 2017 IN NEW YORK

The artists commissioned for this year’s edition of Frieze Projects, curated by High Line Art’s director and chief curator Cecilia Alemani—who is also organizing the Italian pavilion for the 2017 Venice Biennale—are Dora Budor, Elaine Cameron-Weir, Jon Rafman, Ryan McNamara, and Adam Pendleton. A series of voyeuristic site-specific installations will be created by Budor, Cameron-Weir, and Rafman, while McNamara and Pendleton will be making new performance works. The exhibitions and performances will coincide with the 2017 Frieze art fair on Randall’s Island, scheduled to take place from May 5 to 7, 2017.

Frieze Projects is also paying tribute to the Galleria La Tartaruga, an experimental arts space active in Rome during the middle of the twentieth century. There will be a restaging of two projects included in the gallery’s influential 1968 exhibition “Il Teatro delle Mostre” (Theater of Exhibitions) by the late artist Fabio Mauri and Giosetta Fioroni.

“For the sixth edition of Frieze Projects in New York, we have invited a group of international artists to create installations, performances, and subtle actions that play with the relationship between the act of seeing and being seen,” said Alemani. “There isn’t a better place than the fair to look at people and art—and to be looked at in return. This year’s projects make us aware of this dynamic, revealing the tension between exhibitionism and voyeurism.”