Sophia Al-Maria, the winner of this yr’s Frieze London Artist Award, gave a freewheeling stand-up routine with a twist on the honest on Wednesday. “I’m not a efficiency artist—I’m doing this as a result of it was the most cost effective potential artwork kind I may think about,” she joked. Her often-serious act touched on matters starting from chasing artwork world invoices, to the assault on Gaza, to being mansplained to by Robert De Niro. There have been guarantees of karaoke—and invites to buy an editioned work, proceeds of which can go to Micro Rainbow, a charity supporting LGBTQ+ asylum seekers. Wall-Based mostly Work (2025) shall be carried out every day at Frieze London, on Thursday at 3pm, Friday at 4.30pm, Saturday at 3pm and Sunday at 4.30pm.
