Frieze London, Booth G05 (3 - 6 October 2019) The Third Line at Frieze London 2019

Rana Begum’s new reflector works describe our ever-evolving built environment. Inspired by the straightforward patterns and vibrant colours of road signs and how their surfaces shift as the day progresses, these works to shift and change as light exposure varies and as viewers walk around them.

Rana Begum, No 865 L Reflector, 2019, Reflectors on aluminium, h178.5 x w180.5 x d4 cm / Courtesy of The Third Line and the artist

Pain, Sara Naim’s new body of work, is composed of sculptural photographs that explore the materialisation of emotions and bodily sensations. During various meditation sessions that the artist guides, she asks the sitters to draw their impressions which she then detail-selects, magnifies, prints and shapes to form her photographic sculptures.

Sara Naim, Waves, Pain, Tingling Pleasure, Heaviness, Heat. 151.4 x 63.8 cm / Courtesy of The Third Line and the artist

With an iteration currently on view at the 58th Venice Biennale’s Arsenale, as part of a new installation titled Dillio Plaza, Slavs and Tatars’ Salamoia (2019) sees the traditional water bottles replaced with an amameh or turban. It nods to the water-fountains often found outside mosques.

Slavs & Tatars, Salamoia, 2019. Resin, water cooler, 170 x 40 x 40 cm / Courtesy of The Third Line and the artist

Slavs & Tatars, Salamoia, 2019. Resin, water cooler, 170 x 40 x 40 cm, close up / Courtesy of The Third Line and the artist

In her latest series, Hayv Kahraman contorts the bodies of her female heroines into impossible postures, synonymous of otherness and the resulting social pressures.

Influenced by geometric abstraction, numeric symbolism and their connection to the natural world, Nima Nabavi creates meticulous grids of ink on archival paper. It reveals the inherent beauty of our shared reality. Much like in the natural world, Nabavi’s process resides in the use of one fundamental, irreducible element repeated into a larger motif.

Nima Nabavi, 2019.07.05, Archival Ink on Paper, 54 x 54 cm / Courtesy of The Third Line and the artist

Nima Nabavi, 2019.07.05, Archival Ink on Paper, 54 x 54 cm, detail / Courtesy of The Third Line and the artist

The Third Line is a Dubai based art gallery that represents contemporary Middle Eastern artists, including Abbas Akhavan, Ala Ebtekar, Amir H. Fallah, Babak Golkar, Farhad Moshiri, Farah Al Qasimi, Fouad Elkoury, Hassan Hajjaj, Hayv Kahraman, Huda Lutfi, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Jordan Nassar, Laleh Khorramian, Lamya Gargash, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Nima Nabavi, Pouran Jinchi, Rana Begum, Sahand Hesamiyan, Sara Naim, Sherin Guirguis, Shirin Aliabadi, Slavs and Tatars, Sophia Al-Maria, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Youssef Nabil and Zineb Sedira.