Frieze Los Angeles 2025

The gallery's presentation contemplates themes of personhood, the reimagining of women's roles within domestic spheres, and vibrant material-led making.

Visual activist and artist Zanele Muholi offers self-portraits from their renowned Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness) series, one of which will be in lightbox form.

South African ceramic artist Zizipho Poswa presents new work from her iLobola series, alongside a monumental ceramic and bronze sculpture from her latest solo Indyebo yakwaNtu, one of the inaugural exhibitions to open Southern Guild's 5000sqft LA space in February 2024.

South African artist Manyaku Mashilo offers new mixed-media painting, a continuation of her latest body of work produced for her first US solo, The Laying of Hands, that is due to open a week before Frieze on 13 February 2025.

Showing her work with Southern Guild at a fair for the fist time, South African artist Bonolo Kavula presents a specially commissioned textile installation, intricately produced using shweshwe fabric, thread and glue. Kavula was included in Southern Guild Los Angeles' group exhibition signifying the impossible song (Sep - Nov 2024), and also presented a solo at Art Basel, Miami (2024) and Art Basel, HK (2024).

LA-based artist and filmmaker Alex Hedison presents a photographic work from her series, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, captured in Malibu over a period of four years. The series records the mercurial terrain beneath the beach houses where the artist grew up and explores ideas of impermanence, space and memory.