FRIEZE LONDON

Do You Know How to Start a Fire offers an insight into a world of paradoxes and transient instances of deep personal references, interwoven equally in environments of silence, sensorial stimuli and nebulous ideas through the work of eight artists. While Ayesha Sultana explores spatial encounters and movement in a measurement of space between things, Biraaj Dodiya and Radhika Khimji unravel practices rooted in navigating landscapes, uncertainties and distance through acts of abrasion or resistance. Afrah Shafiq and Bani Abidi explore dynamics of power through a diversity of research modes and devices, rupturing existing narratives, and creating subversive, speculative new ways of looking at the familiar. Bhasha Chakrabarti offers a deeply personal lens into the genre of still life and explores the act of painting as memorialising intimacies and relationships. Juxtaposed alongside, is the practice of the late Reba Hore, whose paintings emanate fervent, frantic lines of colours making form, figure and landscape indiscernible while revealing a singular gaze from the interiority of an entangled knot of experiences. In Sakshi Gupta’s sculptural works, emerging from continued engagement with found objects and industrial scrap, the crosses between banal inanimate objects and animal-human world arise from an acute need to blur these rigid confines and experience the self in a larger context, while re-evaluating notions of transience and resilience.