2019
David Zwirner participated in Frieze New York 2019 with a dual presentation of new works created specifically for the fair by Harold Ancart and Christopher Williams.
Christopher Williams’s work critically investigates the medium of photography and the transformations of industrial and post-industrial culture, focusing particularly on the structures of representation and classification in modern society. Kochgeschirr Adapted for Use, the artist’s presentation at Frieze New York, was an adaptation of Williams’s theater production Stage Play, which was presented in Zurich in May 2017. The elements of this restaging included five new photographs, which are themselves adaptations and restagings of themes and imagery that the artist has previously explored; two silkscreen posters; a modular wall; a suite of Franz West–designed furniture; and the David Zwirner sales team, who were repurposed as the theater troupe.
Images: Christopher Williams, Model Cookware Adapted for Use at Frieze New York, 2019. Photos by Dan Bradica