Lehmann Maupin returns to Frieze London with a presentation of works by gallery artists Teresita Fernández, Calida Rawles, and Cecilia Vicuña, who each explore the complex, sensory relationships between spirituality, humanity, and our environment. Spanning a variety of media, including installation, sculpture, paintings, drawing and film, this presentation invites the viewer to consider connections between individuals and collectivity, landscape and lived experience, material and concept, mind and body.

Central to the presentation is a selection of work by Cecilia Vicuña, whose commission at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall will open to the public on October 11. Presented here is Vicuña’s Caracol Azul (Blue Snail) (2017), a wool sculpture that cascades across the floor as it unspools from a tightly wound center into a vibrant, larger-than-life version of its namesake. Unspun wool is a vital, enduring component of Vicuña’s decades-long practice, and the artist has noted that in the Andes, unspun wool is considered a sacred material. The raw, unadulterated material, before it is touched by humans, represents the cosmos from which all life originated and holds much creative potential. Characteristic of Vicuña’s practice, the work carefully examines the specificities of materials, their culturally charged associations, and their relationship to our ecosystem. Vicuña considers the Blue Snail’s train a symbolic (and perhaps hopeful) story or poem that describes a world where humans place primary importance on the planet and all life forms. As testament to the breadth of her practice, the presentation also includes a selection of Vicuña’s paintings, films, and a group of Precarios–intimately scaled sculptures made of found environmental materials that pay tribute to the sacredness of land and the perilousness of being. In addition to her presentation at the Tate, Vicuña’s work is currently on view in the 59th Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams; and was recently on view in a major solo exhibition entitled Spin Spin Triangulene at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.