Artist Precious Okoyomon Invited a Cast of Creative Friends to Recreate the Tower of Babel Inside the Shed for Frieze New York
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...
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