Among the galleries debuting at Frieze this year is Sargent’s Daughters Gallery, with a solo show by Mexico City-based Yenny Mao, whose works also feature in the Focus section, all priced between $8,000 and $15,000. The pavilion presents the artist’s charged sculptural language as an exercise in embodiment and disembodiment, the molding and reworking of body and infrastructure, where bodily memory, architectural tension and material transformation come together. Mao’s work bears the remnants of structure and ritual at once, transforming fragments, supports and forms into objects that feel freshly excavated and weaponised, suspended between personal mythology and a broader language of displacement, protection and pressure. The show precedes the artist’s solo exhibition at Mexico City’s Anahuacalli Museum upcoming in the fall of 2026.
As first appeared in Frieze, Campeche presents a solo show by Mexican artist Abraham González Pacheco, whose work draws on archaeology, history, and indigenous narratives to distort official history and highlight sectors rendered invisible by cultural hegemony. Made from natural pigments, graphite and concrete, the works appear petrified through accumulation, as if each surface bears traces of stories that still resist erasure. Memory and ancestral traces function here as poetic gestures, opening up to the gray areas where facts overflow at the edges of the collective and individual mind. Interested in the spaces between the incomplete fragments that compose established narratives, González Pacheco proposes tools for excavating the collective imagination and finding possible futures in its ruins. His works also appeared in the just-opened Carnegie International Exhibition, and prices for his works range between $8,000 and $15,000.
Buenos Aires gallery Isla Flutante debuts in focus with Rosario Zuraquin’s liquefied paintings, where evocations of physical movement and the inner connection between humans dissolve into one another through watermarks, soft spots, and sketch-like narratives. The works occupy a fluid space between photography, intimate narrative and healing, expanding across the stalls via their transparent surfaces. Prices range from $6,000 to $20,000. Working to strengthen its corporate threads, Freeze this year also secured the support of the Sherman Family Foundation, which has committed to a five-year acquisition initiative dedicated to the Focus division. The Fund provides $50,000 annually and supports two buyouts of $20,000 each, with an additional unrestricted award of $5,000 directed to each selected artist for production and studio support. “What’s important is that part of the funding goes directly to the artist, not just the acquisition, but also supporting the production or studio. It’s about investing in future careers,” Messinho told Observer. Through the fund, the Brooklyn Museum acquired two works by Bettina from Ulrich: Traffic patternsfrom the series New York Phenomena. (The artist’s award will be presented posthumously to support the documentation and preservation of her work.) In addition, the Baltimore Museum of Art acquired three works: a painting by Rika Takebayashi; Both banks I From the public gallery, Ceiba Calvocchio Bilan Sikel 1 By W. Galleria and Joan Burke Festival 7 From soft opening. Each artist will receive an unrestricted prize of $5,000.
The stress test of New York Art Week continues today, with the Independent and TEFAF exhibitions opening next. Stay tuned.
