The Best Shows to See in London During Frieze

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‘The Best Shows to See in London During Frieze’

October 2022

By Alice Bucknell

This autumn, South London Gallery presents two solo exhibitions by British artists Rene Matić and Simeon Barclay. A gigantic fake boulder, suspended puppets and a row of locked office doors in Barclay’s Main Gallery installation conjure an ominous architecture packed with cultural references and splintered symbolism. Meanwhile, Matić’s ‘upon this rock’ unfurls across multiple spaces and media, offering a powerful collage of faith, family and life cycles that frame the artist’s work. Of particular note is 60 and 25, alive (2022), an installation by Matić that incorporates 1970s domestic interiors, skinhead subculture and a sculptural reconfiguring of the crucified body, modelled on the artist’s father, to reflect on intergenerational trauma and the exhausted Black British body.