Coco Fusco: Only in Darkness

As part of Frieze Week 2025, the artist presents a series of public billboards and digital screens throughout Los Angeles, offering a collective space for reflection and dialogue

in Frieze Los Angeles , News | 12 FEB 25

Frieze is pleased to present a city-wide project by the interdisciplinary artist Coco Fusco in a special collaboration with Mendes Wood DM, and Orange Barrel Media.

Through her work Only in Darkness, Fusco continues her exploration of race, gender, and colonialism, inviting audiences to reflect on these critical themes through the act of skywriting. Fusco’s project will be presented through a series of public billboards and digital screens throughout Los Angeles, offering a collective space for reflection and dialogue. The billboards, showcasing powerful written messages from Fusco, will invite the public to reckon with societal and environmental challenges.

Coco Fusco, Only in Darkness, Courtesy Orange Barrel Media, the artist and Mendes Wood DM
Coco Fusco, Only in Darkness, Courtesy Orange Barrel Media, the artist and Mendes Wood DM

Fusco’s work aims to transform the private act of reading into a public experience, encouraging critical thinking about the future of our planet and its inhabitants. The collaboration with OBM extends its mission to support the production and presentation of art in public spaces.

Only in Darkness is currently on view across Los Angeles through February 23, 2025.

Further Information

Frieze Los Angeles, 20 – 23 February 2025, Santa Monica Airport.

Frieze is proud to support the LA Arts Community Fire Fund, led by the J. Paul Getty Trust. In addition to Frieze’s contribution, 10% of the value of all newly purchased tickets is being donated to the fund. 

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