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Frieze: Work in Progress: Florence Carr

For this year’s edition of Frieze London, Petrine is showing a solo presentation of new work by Florence Carr.

Conscious of material hierarchies and the nuanced ways we assign value, Carr employs materials and objects that no longer fulfil their role within materialistic consumption patterns. The resulting assemblages offer a reconfiguration; a defiance of specific categorisation that questions the function of objects.

Carr’s focus is on how far one can stretch the recognisability or authenticity of forms, much like memory, still able to infer the content of their gaps, before they adopt a total newness.

When the mind struggles to capture the entirety of memory, we often recall isolated details with pinhole sharpness. Interested in the habituation of objects, Carr looks to articles that subtly index the every day, made significant through personal narrative.

Florence Carr lives and works in London. Recent solo exhibitions include 12.26, Los Angeles (2024); and Petrine, Paris (2023). Group shows include Sweetwater, Berlin (2024); Molitor, Berlin (2023); Maison Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne (2023); and Paradise Row, London (2022).

Florence Carr
Installation view: Frieze, London (2024)

Florence Carr
Spatterdock, 2024
powder-coated steel, jacquard ribbon
14.3 x 41 cm

From left to right:

Florence Carr
Aster, 2024
powder-coated steel, jacquard ribbon
14.2 x 26.6 cm

Florence Carr
Patterned (black), 2024
powder-coated steel, jacquard ribbon
14.1 x 26.5 cm

Florence Carr
Pinch, 2024
powder-coated steel, jacquard ribbon
14.5 x 28 cm

Florence Carr
Patterned (grey), 2024
powder-coated steel, wallpaper
13.5 x 26.5 cm

Florence Carr
Cherry, 2024
powder-coated steel, cotton
13.3 x 34.7 cm

From left to right:

Florence Carr
Untitled, 2024
upholstery fabric, graphite, graph paper
92.8 x 71.2 cm

Florence Carr
Untitled, 2024
upholstery fabric, paper
27.5 x 39 cm

Florence Carr
Wallpaper study, 2024
graphite on paper
73.2 x 73.2 cm