Wilfredo Prieto presents 'Ascended Line' at Frieze Art Fair 2008
Thursday 16th October 2008 - Sunday 19th October 2008
As part of his residency at Gasworks, Wilfredo Prieto has developed a new site specific installation intended for Frieze Art Fair 2008. In Ascended Line (2008) visitors to Frieze will encounter a red carpet which draws a path through the galleries' booths. If followed, the carpets trail leads outside the fair and up to the top of a tall flag pole.
Prieto's juxtaposed elements, on the one hand draw on our notions of national identity, power and order while on the other, refer to our international fascination with celebrities. By choosing to fly the flag of celebrity, Ascended Line could be interpreted as an attempt to propose a collective ideology which goes beyond national borders.
Ascended Line will be on view throughout the duration of Frieze Art Fair, (16-19 October 2008).
Wilfredo Prieto’s residency at Gasworks is granted as part of The Cartier Award, a major initiative by Frieze Projects in collaboration with Gasworks and sponsored by Cartier. This year the selection panel consisted of Neville Wakefield (Curator, Frieze Projects) Grazia Quaroni, (Curator, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art), Mia Jankowicz ( former Residency Curator, Gasworks), and Richard Wentworth (Artist).
