Nat Faulkner is having a very good month. His photographic work Synthetic Solar II (2024) has simply been acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and is already everywhere in the truthful because the inspiration for the stylishly dotty Stone Island T-shirts being worn by the Frieze workers.
This week the artist, who’s represented by Brunette Coleman, was introduced because the recipient of the Camden Artwork Centre’s Rising Artist Prize. This annual prize picks an rising artist from the truthful’s Focus part and gives them a solo present at Camden Artwork Centre the next yr. In accordance with the centre’s director Martin Clark, Faulkner’s work “caught the jury’s consideration for its rigorous and seductive use of supplies and course of”.
In the meantime, the Guatemala gallery Proyectos Ultravioleta has gained the Frieze London Stand Prize 2024 with a multi-sensory stand celebrating two artists from Chi Xot within the Guatemalan Highlands. The miniature work of the late Rosa Elena Curruchich doc the lives and traditions of the Maya Kaqchikel folks. The discreet measurement of her work was a deliberate choice, says the gallerist Cami Charask, made within the face of oppression and assault from male painters locally, who “didn’t need her to be an artist”.
The successful stand of Proyectos Ultravioleta, which is presenting works by two Guatemalan artists © David Owens
Together with her work, she places “ladies on the centre of public life”. Edgar Calel, in the meantime, makes use of clay to make scenes with slogans that touch upon “possession, land and ecology each previous and current”, Charask says. The ground of the stand is roofed in aromatic pine needles. The equal prize within the Focus part was awarded to Sizzling Wheels (Athens and London) for its presentation devoted to the New York collective CFGNY.
