Visual Essay

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Specially commissioned for Frieze Week, the Seoul-born graphic novelist offers a new episode in the life of Kwak Kyeongsu: socialite, crypto-investor and (sometimes) painter

BY Yeong-shin Ma |

Drawing on the themes of this year’s Frieze Projects Los Angeles, the photographer reflects on the seduction of the cosmetic image and very Hollywood constructions of allure, artifice and illusion

BY Matthew McLean |

The London artist revisits the last two decades in celebration of Frieze’s 20th anniversary, with a specially commissioned new poem from James Massiah

BY Liz Johnson Artur AND James Massiah |

KK Obi and Jebi Labembika craft a fashion editorial exploring how second-hand clothes have influenced local style

BY KK Obi AND Jebi Labembika |

In a special commission for Frieze Seoul 2023, the Korea-based photographer takes the obangsaek, to reflect on the body, identity and belonging

BY Rala Choi |

The photographer creates impossible-to-stage images exploring emotional states in urban life

BY Matthew McLean AND Charlie Engman |

Poet Tan Lin recalls growing up in Athens, Ohio, with his sister, the artist Maya Lin – with specially commissioned photography by Roe Ethridge

BY Tan Lin |

A specially commissioned visual essay by the artist, ahead of his Hammer Museum retrospective

BY Paul McCarthy |

As ‘Countryside, The Future’ opens at the Guggenheim, Koolhaas explains the rapid shifts occurring in rural zones

BY Rem Koolhaas |

This specially-commissioned visual essay by Tony Cokes draws from theorist Kodwo Eshun’s moving epitaph for his friend, the critic Mark Fisher

BY Tony Cokes |

These specially commissioned photographs capture an ever-changing city through portraits of friends 

BY Oto Gillen |

‘The images Miller created don’t exist solely in the past: her legacy moves through time, like a river’

BY Viviane Sassen |

A visual essay born out of a trip the Polish artist made three years ago to the South Caucasus

BY Harry Thorne AND Joanna Piotrowska |

The artist Simon Starling photographs Giorgio Griffa’s studio in Turin

BY Simon Starling AND Giorgio Griffa |