Past Events

Friday 11 February

To celebrate her new book White Shoes, join Nona Faustine in conversation with writers and book contributors Jessica Lanay, Pamela Sneed, and Seph Rodney. They will explore New York City's once-pivotal involvement in the slave trade, the politics of representation and visibility, and the historical figures who inspired Faustine's own work.

Thursday 27 January

In this event recorded at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, Alec Soth discuss his new book A Pound of Pictures with writer Rebecca Bengal. They reflect on the emergence of Soth’s new, ruminative book from road trips and poetry readings, as well as the place of images in our day-to-day lives.

Thursday 3 March

Carla Liesching joins artist and educator Pablo Lerma and writer and photographer Kelsey Sucena for a discussion of her new book, Good Hope. They explore the book's visual and textual strategies, from the sourcing and sequencing of found materials to its branching extensions in sculpture and installation, as well as the issues of racial justice and decolonial activism raised by its interrogation of colonialism past and present.

Saturday 29 January

This panel will examine the process of portrait photography, both behind and in front of the camera. Hannah Klemm and Eric Lutz, cocurators of ‘Currents 120: Jess T. Dugan’, will lead a discussion with artist Jess T. Dugan and two of their sitters, Shira Berkowitz and Collin Elliott, who are the subjects of numerous portraits in Dugan’s new book Look at me like you love me.

Saturday 19 February

Frieze and MACK are thrilled to be joined by award-winning artist Thomas Demand for an exclusive signing of his most ambitious book to date, Mundo de Papel. Published by MACK this spring, Mundo de Papel uses sophisticated paper mechanics in the form of pop-ups to present the eight large pavilions Demand designed for his show at Centro Botín, expanding on the dialogue between representation and ‘real’ events at the centre of his work.