For Frieze NY 2025, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel presents works by Beatriz Milhazes, Wanda Pimentel, Tadáskía, Antonio Tarsis, and Frank Walter, in a five-part exchange between distinct but intercommunicating and intergenerational investigations. Milhazes’ paintings and collages, Tarsis’ assemblages, Tadáskía’s sculptures and works on paper, Pimentel’s drawings, and Walter’s enigmatic landscapes and psychological portraits draw from vernacular visual languages and reprocess them according to their own vision.

While Milhazes translates ornamental motifs and decorative visual functions into abstract geometric systems, Tarsis addresses the compositional properties of impermanent objects such as matchboxes, harnessing their latent combustible potential. Both formal exuberance and the emphasis on material transformation appear in Tadáskía, who translates graphic tangles on paper into sculptural embodiments of metamorphosis. In Wanda Pimentel’s historical china ink drawings, the artist takes the relationship between the female body and a stifling environment of household appliances into hallucinatory scenes in skewed perspectives and eloquent, textural traces. Frank Walter’s personal approach to painting—joining surrealist impulses with a diaristic sensibility—maps an interior landscape shaped by colonial legacies, solitude, and visionary thought.

In parallel with Frieze, Beatriz Milhazes: Rigor and Beauty is on view at the Guggenheim Museum New York. Last year, Tadáskía had her first solo presentation in the United States, Projects: Tadáskía at MoMA, while Wanda Pimentel was recently included in the institution’s permanent collection. In 2024, Antonio Tarsis was a highlight of the 38th Panorama da Arte Brasileira –Mil Graus, in São Paulo.