In its new, less central but more expansive Lower East Side home, the fair provides a welcome counterpoint to New York's sensory overload.
Brazilian gallery Almeida & Dale has presentations both at Frieze (with François Ghebaly) and at Independent, where it has a shared booth with David Nolan Gallery and is staging a dialogue between Chakaia Booker’s tire sculptures and the chromatically charged photographs of Miguel Rio Branco, highlighting the artists’ shared attention to latent histories, material memory and the uneasy beauty that can emerge from what society leaves behind. Booker transforms discarded rubber tires into compressed, torsioned, shadowed forms that appear almost posthuman—totemic dark creatures in which urban residues are charged with bodily tension and a strange ritual presence. Rio Branco’s photographs instead dignify marginalized communities and urban environments through layered textures, subtle mirroring and saturated color, revealing the existential density of places often dismissed as degraded or peripheral.
May 19, 2026
