Hong Kong’s Blindspot Gallery is taking part in Woven, a new section of the fair curated by Cosmin Costinas that features artists working with textiles and weaving.

On show in Blindspot Gallery’s booth is a new body of work by Hongkonger Angela Su, who has been experimenting since June with the medium of hair embroidery. Su sees this medium—which involves human hair being woven into fabric—as a subversion of the domestic act of sewing.

Many of the images in this show also depict body parts being sewn shut, referencing historic works of performance art and reflecting on the protests that have rocked Hong Kong this summer.

Costinas is curator of Hong Kong’s non-profit Para Site art space.

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Seoul-based Kukje Gallery has spent more than 35 years bringing the best of international art to Korea and presenting the best of Korean art to the world—a mission the gallery is continuing at Frieze London this year.

In its booth, Kukje Gallery is presenting paintings by Dansaekhwa masters Park Seo-bo and Ha Chong-hyun, as well as an installation by Hague Yang made using Venetian blinds, one of her signature materials. 

Tokyo-based Taka Ishii Gallery, which last year opened SHOP Taka Ishii in Hong Kong, is hosting a group show at Frieze London showcasing artists from around the world.

Highlights include recent prints by Welsh conceptual artist Cerith Wyn Evans, works by sculptor Rei Naito—who is best known for designing the Teshima Art Museum on a small island in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea—and photographs by Kunié Sugiura.

At last year’s Frieze London, Edouard Malingue Gallery presented an attention-grabbing show of brightly-coloured sculptures, installations and animations by Hongkonger Wong Ping—a show that won Wong the inaugural Camden Arts Centre Emerging Artist Prize.

This year’s booth, featuring conceptual sculptures, installations and paintings by Shanghainese artist He Yida, promises to be a quieter affair. He makes delicate sculptures from found objects—plywood, plastic bags, sheets of glass and more—that question the art world’s obsession with permanence.

Outside of the fair, Edouard Malingue Gallery has opened a temporary space in a decommissioned church in Islington to showcase "Listen" (2006), a perfomative installation by Mainland Chinese artist Wang Wei. That space is open till November 3. 

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