If you wander through Regent’s Park’s English Gardens this autumn, you’ll find the 14th edition of Frieze Sculpture, the annual display that transforms the green space into a completely free outdoor gallery. Partnered with Sculpture in the City, East Bank, The Line and Fourth Plinth, and part of London Sculpture Week, this year’s Frieze Sculpture, curated by London-based curator and writer Fatoş Üstek, explores the idea of hybridity.
“There is almost a triangular relationship between the factual, the virtual and the imaginary,” Üstek says as we walk through the park. “I set myself a curatorial challenge every year, not to repeat myself… This year, we have an undercurrent that has come out of the reality we’re currently living in.” Responding to the park’s own ecosystem and its metropolitan surroundings, the exhibition aims to present sculpture as an accessible “living, adaptive and expansive language”. “It is important to me, because this is the people’s park, that you don’t have to purchase anything; you can just come in and engage with it,” says Üstek. Here are some of this year’s must-see pieces.
