Pace to Present Solo Booth of Emily Kam Kngwarray at Inaugural Frieze Abu Dhabi

Pace will dedicate its booth at the first Frieze Abu Dhabi to a solo presentation of paintings by Emily Kam Kngwarray, an artist from Australia's Northern Territory. The selection includes never-before-exhibited works alongside pieces shown in the gallery's recent New York exhibition, Emily Kam Kngwarray: The Turning Season. Spanning her full career, the booth traces a trajectory from early batik textiles to later colorist canvases and abstractions drawing on the anwerlarr yam. Kngwarray, a member of the Anmatyerr people of Alhalker, rooted her practice in Indigenous Australian knowledge systems and a custodial relationship to ancestral lands. Her work engages the histories, relationships, topography, and plant life of the Central Desert environment where she lived and worked. The presentation marks the artist's first showing at the new Abu Dhabi fair, which opens this year.