Untitled, Art Fair – Zimbabwean artist, Wallen Mapondera creates complex wall sculptures with richly tessellated abstract surfaces out of cardboard and textiles. These works challenge the linearity of time and history, transforming ordinary materials into textured visual puzzles.   Noémie Goudal’s practice is an investigation into photographs and films as dialectical images. Close proximities of truth and fiction, real and imagined offer new perspectives into the photographic canvas. The artist questions the potential of the image as a whole, reconstructing its layers and possibilities of extension through sculptural installations she then photographs.   Monica Tap uses landscape to consider questions of time and history, technology and memory. Her paintings are arrangements assembled from various fragments: outtakes from favorite paintings in history, elements from her own snapshots, color notes, and memory. Each painting is both an invention and a response to place that she knows and has recorded. She is interested in how location or landscape can trigger memory; akin to how painting readily conjures its own past.   These small pieces by weaver Teresa Lanceta are much more informal than her larger works, showing her hand in stitching embellishments. Her approach to weaving focuses on the formal elements, on the original, inherent aspects of woven fabric: its ligaments, materials, traditions and techniques. For Lanceta, weaving is just another part of daily life that allows personal stories, events and experiences to impregnate the warp and weft of their creations.   These small paintings on paper by David Lloyd incorporate a wide range of media in pursuit of his conceptual goals.  He employs a variety of methods ranging from collage, fiberglass and resin, monoprint, paint of a variety of kind and xerox transfer.   London based artist, Ranti Bam’s work explores the potential of ceramic to express a love of words and metaphor. Her process involves working with clay in its natural unreinforced state, using slip to embellish the surface with colors, patterns, texts and textures. With inspiration drawn from wood, metal and fabric, she combines hand building and throwing, continually deconstructing and abstracting her pieces, creating form through collage.   Provosty’s work is engaged with consciousness and perception. The artist uses subtle, highly material qualities of oil paint which oscillate visually and conceptually by way of multi-referential imagery, a physical interaction with light and the environment, and continuous spacial shifts.   Art Basel Miami Beach – Martin Boyce’s sculptures, photographs and installations poetically investigate the intersections between art, architecture, design, and nature. He incorporates a palette of shapes and forms that frequently recall familiar structures from the built environment, for example a painted steel chain, yet presents them in a way that is entirely new.   Since they began collaborating as a duo in 2000, Ida Tursic and Wilfried Mille have been interrogating the contemporary overload of images and their relation with pictorial representation, questioning their reproduction, circulation and disappearance. Taken out of movies, magazines, media and the enormous repertory of data available on the internet, this boundless source of anonymous, preexisting material is used up and transformed into paintings.   Always a favorite, Michel Francois work’s accumulate over time and vary according to their disposition in space, or the context. In a manner similar to that of the Arte Povera artists, François uses great economy of means to transform seemingly uncomplicated objects and materials, or traces of past events, into deeply resonant carriers of meaning.   Antonio Ballester Moreno creates process-oriented works that materialize through the repetitive gesture of handcrafted geometries in symbolic earth tones. His aesthetic refers to shapes originating in nature, conveyed in a basic metaphoric language: yellow for light; blue to represent water; and the mixing of the two creates green, the color of vegetation; circles are cycles of the moon and sun; triangles are trees and mountains. Through his application of simplistic yet determined shapes and colors, Ballester Moreno has developed a personal vocabulary upon which he builds a world of subtle variances and symbolic compositions. While his approach is rooted in abstraction, his work evokes histories of pattern and decoration, craft, tapestry, design, and African, Islamic and Ottoman influences.   American artist, Julia Rommel uses canvases and stretchers as sculptural architecture for her work. She physically manipulates her canvases until arriving at a suitable intersection of composition and color fit for a convincing abstract painting. Rommel repetitively cycles through painting, stretching, painting, un-stretching at shifting scales and awkward angles. The results are color-blocked, stretched and re-stretched canvases where the physical process of the artist’s hand is documented through layering.