The frieze team selects the international shows they’re most excited about during this year’s Biennale
Expanding on her recent solo exhibition ‘Period Drama’ at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hanover, Rebecca Ackroyd will produce a new body of work that transforms an old tobacco warehouse using fragmented narratives that play out on a theatre stage. The title of the exhibition is taken from the pivotal moment in which a child begins to differentiate between itself and others – a key development according to Jacques Lacan. Extending on this idea, Ackroyd’s fragmented figures and large-scale paintings will create literal and metaphorical spaces of self-reflection. Oscillating between states of consciousness, Ackroyd’s new work is likely to leave you with a dreamlike sensitivity that foreshadows the threat of awakening.
