Elephant: ‘Top 10 Must-See Exhibitors at Frieze 2023: The Elephant Roundup’

Emily Burke for Elephant
11 October 2023

“Despite being in its twentieth year, Frieze still generates the same kind of buzz it did when it first pitched tent in Regent’s Park in 2003. Spread across Frieze London, Frieze Masters and Frieze Sculpture, knowing where to begin your Frieze journey can be a challenge in itself, and that’s before you’ve even decided what to wear! So, over the next few days, Elephant will be highlighting the best of Frieze 2023 – from inside the fair to the after-parties happening across town.

Elephant’s Art Features Editor, Emily Burke, starts her visit at Frieze London:

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Tanoa Sasraku at Vardaxoglou

Vardaxoglou’s presentation this year represents not only their debut at Frieze London, but also their first participation in an art fair. This is not for lack of interest, as the gallery has rapidly become a cult favourite on the London art scene since its opening in 2020 (like many of its Focus cohort). Vardaxoglou has taken time to refine its programme and focus on the artists that it supports. One of these artists is Tanoa Sasraku, whose work is representing the gallery at Frieze.

Sasraku is twenty-seven years old: a point worth making based on the sophistication of her work which explores the British landscape, the human body and her own familial legacy with a sensitively critical eye. Sasraku is exhibiting a new series, Terratypes, which explores the artist’s personal and historical relationship with the landscape of Britain. Her process in making these works has seen her travel to a series of locations, including Dartmoor, the Jurassic Coast, and the Scottish Highlands, where she forages for earth pigments, millions of years old. She rubs these, by hand, onto blank sheets of newsprint, which she then sews, soaks and rips.