Femme à la coiffe, 1979, Gouache on paper, 100 x 75 cm, Credit Romain Darnaud
Stand S13
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11am - 7pm
https://www.frieze.com/fairs/frieze-london-frieze-masters
Elmarsa Gallery will be presenting a selection of paintings by famed artist Baya Mahieddine, more commonly known as Baya as part of Frieze Masters Spotlight Section. This presentation draws attention to Baya’s profound influence on North African post-colonial art movements during the mid-twentieth century, alongside her involvement in the French Surrealist movement.
Showcasing artwork made between the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, the presentation will provide insight into the career of one of Algeria’s most influential artists. Often associated with Surrealism, the artist rejected the classification of her work into carefully contextualized movements, claiming only to fit into the box of ‘Bayaism’, an internal desire to materialize refabricated wife’s tales and enmesh them into the intricacies of lived experience.
