Sophia Al-Maria, the winner of this 12 months’s Frieze London Artist Award, gave a freewheeling stand-up routine with a twist on the truthful on Wednesday. “I’m not a efficiency artist—I’m doing this as a result of it was the most cost effective attainable artwork type I may think about,” she joked. Her often-serious act touched on matters starting from chasing artwork world invoices, to the assault on Gaza, to being mansplained to by Robert De Niro. There have been guarantees of karaoke—and invites to buy an editioned work, proceeds of which is able to go to Micro Rainbow, a charity supporting LGBTQ+ asylum seekers. Wall-Primarily based Work (2025) shall be carried out day by day at Frieze London, on Thursday at 3pm, Friday at 4.30pm, Saturday at 3pm and Sunday at 4.30pm.
