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Following her residency at Gasworks in London this summer, Anastasia Pavlou presents a new series of large-scale oil and gesso paintings that continue her exploration of painting as a relational and performative act.

At Frieze, canvases are shown in pairs and threes, where meaning gathers in the space between them. This rhythm of adjacency stems from her longstanding engagement with collage as a way of thinking—of seeing things together, where relationships give rise to new images.

Pavlou extends this inquiry through methodologies drawn from installation, theatre, and performance theory. The works engage the ontology of rehearsals and the medium of drawing—structures whose completeness lies in their making, in their non-arrival, and in their constant movement.

The resulting images function as residues of a performance, briefly occupying space and time. Their essence is not that they were made, but that they happened. In this way, Pavlou reimagines painting as a site of translation and negotiation across disciplines—a medium that shifts from fixed object to durational event.