The Best Booths at Frieze LA, from Projects Dedicated to Fire Recovery to Quietly Introspective Sculptures

By Maximilíano Durón

In one corner of Roberts Projects’s booth is an installation by legendary LA artist Betye Saar that is re-created from a 1990 solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Sanctified Visions is dedicated to the memory of author Zora Neale Hurston and meant to mimic her childhood home in Eatonville, Florida. Sitting on a patch of sun-dried grass is a rocking chair that rocks, giving the sense that Hurston’s spirit is still with us. Carved into the chair are various animals and critters, a representation of Saar’s belief that we should live in harmony with these relatives, part of the fabric of life. Behind it is a wall of corrugated steel to which a window-like sculpture is affixed that is filled with found metal, chicken wire, a used artist’s palette, and more.