MATCHESFASHION presents Voices with Frieze, Including Alex Tieghi-Walker and Leilah Weinraub
Frieze Viewing Room Los Angeles Edition launches with four exclusive audio guides, created in collaboration with MATCHESFASHION
Frieze Viewing Room Los Angeles Edition launches with four exclusive audio guides, created in collaboration with MATCHESFASHION
From food tourism to queer nightlife haunts, ‘Voices with Frieze’ brings together four experts and insiders for an insider’s guide to the cultural landscape in Los Angeles in 2021.
‘Voices with Frieze’ is a series of exclusive bitesize conversations, featuring Frieze's Rebecca Ann Siegel in conversation with influential LA cultural figures, including: Buck Ellison, the acclaimed artist whose alluring photographs are currently on show in ‘Made in LA’ at the Hammer Museum; art expert Essence Harden, recently appointed co-curator of the California Biennial 2022; Alex Tieghi-Walker, founder of cult art, craft and design resource TIWA select; and LA native Leilah Weinraub, filmmaker and former CEO at the visionary fashion label Hood by Air.
If you are in the city for the inaugural Los Angeles Gallery Weekend coinciding with Frieze Viewing Room Los Angeles Edition 2021, or planning a trip for Frieze Los Angeles 2022, or simply curious about the recent developments in city’s rich cultural life, these leading creatives are hand-picked to offer you an expert guide to the city.
‘Voices with Frieze’, and MATCHESFASHION’s wider partnership with Frieze, forms part of the new initiative ART MATCHES FASHION. A year-long exploration into the ever-evolving conversation between art and fashion, the programme will see stories woven through many of MATCHESFASHION’s digital and physical touch-points, from podcasts to shoots to live events. In collaboration with Frieze, MATCHESFASHION will be creating unique content and immersive experiences within the Frieze Viewing Room digital platform, as well as becoming exclusive partners for the launch of Frieze 91.
Voices with Frieze – Essence Harden
In this episode, Essence Harden, the independent curator whose recent projects include ‘Sites of Memory’ at UTA Artists Space and ‘Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary at California African-American Museum – and who is newly announced as the one of three co-curators of the 2022 California Biennial at the much anticipated new Orange County Museum of Art, discusses her inspirations and passions, from artist Sadie Barnette to the best Cambodian lunch spot.
Voices with Frieze – Alex Tieghi-Walker
Alex Tieghi-Walker is a creative director and writer, transplanted from the mountains of Wales to LA. He is the founder of TIWA Select, a gallery and archive supporting self-taught artists and traditional folk practices which offers a rotating selection of exquisite pieces by the likes of Megumi Shauna Arai and Phoebe Collings-James. In this episode, he talks about LA’s rich landscape of folk-art monuments, his top picks as a ‘food tourist’, and the cactus garden that brings him to tears.
Voices with Frieze – Buck Ellison
Hailing from northern California, the staged photographs of Buck Ellison draw on the registers of stock imagery and luxury marketing to create seductive, quietly unsettling visual explorations of the contradictions of privilege and the constructions of Whiteness. Having exhibited in Europe and the East Coast, his inclusion in the citywide ‘Made in LA’ biennial 2020 – on view until August 1st this year –marks a kind of homecoming for the LA-based artist. He discusses his practice and offers a preview of his works in progress.
Voices with Frieze – Leilah Weinraub
A Fellow of the Sundance Institute, LA-native Leilah Weinraub rose to popular consciousness as the CEO of ground-breaking fashion brand Hood by Air but has long pursued a parallel career in film. Dropping out of the Bard College film programme and working with cult director Tony Kaye, in 2002, she began filming in a Mid-City Black lesbian strip club – named for the club, the resulting documentary feature SHAKEDOWN premiered in 2018, and in 2020 became the first mainstream film to be released on Pornhub. She discusses how she explores the city’s streetscape and navigating its night life.
