This year, our presentation at Frieze New York focuses on a new series of paintings by Mexican artist Pia Camil. Throughout the booth, Camil’s paintings serve as a starting point for the rest of the works on display.

Developed through a return to painting after an extended period working primarily in textile and installation. Currently living in the forest, the artist works from direct observation of her immediate surroundings, where the Güembas, plantain trees that grow in dense, regenerative clusters, become both structure and companion. Within these compositions, bodies appear in symbiotic relation with their environment, inhabiting a space where desire is present but not performed, unfolding through gesture, proximity, and rhythm. The series moves between observation and projection, allowing painting to register a more intimate negotiation between freedom, control, and the invisible conditions that shape both. 

Across the booth, Camil’s paintings establish a point of departure for the other works on view. Questions of growth, persistence, desire, and transformation unfold through different material languages, from Tony Matelli’s weeds emerging at the edge of visibility to Comte’s carved corals, Sebastian Silva’s shifting abstract characters and pictorial gestures, Geles Cabrera’s sculptural figures, and Leonora Carrington’s mythic anatomies. Rather than insisting on a single narrative, the presentation allows these works to meet through scale, material, and proximity, forming a field where the body, the organic, and the imagined remain in constant relation.