No artist exhibiting at Frieze Los Angeles’s fourth version has harnessed the honest’s new location at Santa Monica Airport fairly as ambitiously as Basil Kincaid, who’s sheathing an area pilot’s airplane in his distinctive quilts. Sited close to the historic Barker Hangar, not removed from the runway, Kincaid’s textile intervention has reworked the aerodynamic car into a robust sculpture laden with tales.
Basil Kincaid’s quilts use textiles from St Louis and Ghana Eric Thayer
“The quilts surrounding the airplane mirror distinct, vital swaths of time in my improvement,” he says. “I needed to make use of materials from my completely different development intervals to acknowledge, additional spend money on and elevate each stage of the difficult journey that the artist undertakes.”
Known as Dancing the Wind Stroll (2023) after an excerpt from one in every of Kincaid’s poems, the piece was created in partnership with the Artwork Manufacturing Fund as a part of the honest’s Frieze Tasks programme. It incorporates textiles he gathered in his hometown of St Louis, from thrift shops and in Ghana, the place he has lately been primarily based. “The fixed in these supplies is motion; they’ve all handed arms, they usually’ve all had utility,” Kincaid says. “When materials purposefully passes arms as such, it features flight.”
