Art fairs

Frieze London

October 15 – 19, 2025

London, UK

At Frieze London 2025, Dreamsong presents new mosaic wall reliefs, sculpture and a video installation by Ilana Harris-Babou (b. 1991, Brooklyn, NY). Selected by renowned contemporary artist Camille Henrot as part of the fair’s Artist-to-Artist program, Harris-Babou shares a similarly interdisciplinary engagement with the material culture of everyday objects and technological interfaces.

Harris-Babou’s presentation for Frieze looks to the generative friction produced by urban democratic spaces such as subways, parades, beaches and parks. Adopting Audre Lorde’s poem, A Litany for Survival, as a starting point, the artist catalogues how cities are imprinted with their occupants’ indelible voices and desires. Lorde’s poem laments the generational inheritances of material and cultural marginalization, discussing the curtailed choices facing ‘those of us/who live at the shoreline/standing upon the constant edge of decision.’ As the daughter of parents who came to Lorde’s Harlem neighborhood from Senegal and the Jim Crow south, Harris-Babou adopts the poet’s admonition to ‘speak/remembering/we were never meant to survive’ in work that celebrates solidarity by seeking out layered accumulations of collective presence, voice and engagement within the urban landscape.

Ilana Harris-Babou. Njàmbat (Litany), 2025 [video still]. 4K video, looping.

Past Fairs

DateFairLocationArtist(s)
2025Door County ContemporaryFish Creek, WIMary Celeste Griffin, Lee Noble, Thibault
2025NADA Villa WarsawWarsaw, PolandTamar Ettun, Maria Kozak, Kristen Sanders
2025Frieze LASanta Monica, CAEdgar Arceneaux
2024Ilana Harris-Babou at The Armory ShowNew York, NYIlana Harris-Babou
2024Artsy Foundations Summer 2024www.artsy.netMaria Kozak, Lee Noble, Kristen Sanders, Mathew Zefeldt
2024NY Art Book Fair: Tamar Ettun / LilitNew York, NYTamar Ettun
2024Expo ChicagoChicago, ILTa-coumba T. Aiken
2024Dallas Art FairDallas, TXThibault
2023The Armory Show 2023New York, NYDavid Goldes, Alexa Horochowski
2023Expo ChicagoChicago, ILJulia Haft-Candell, Maria Kozak
2023Frieze Los AngelesLos Angeles, LATa-coumba T. Aiken, Nicole Havekost