09/06/26
Zarastro Art
London Art Fair 2026 | Encounters
Stand E2
Curator: Haydar Taygun
I am no longer a fan of the art fair, my one-time enthusiasm having waned more than a decade ago. Thus, when approaching this art-fair exhibition, which brings together works by five international female artists to consider the extraordinarily broad-sweeping question of ‘what shapes the way we see ourselves, one another, and reality?’, my heckles are perhaps unsurprisingly raised, as I wonder whether this vaguery is simply attempted justification for yet another hapless curator to throw together their best-selling and/or most eye-catching artists in a mele of brushstrokes and bling. Indeed, if I were to go by the accompanying text, I might feel bolstered in this fledgling opinion, since anything that promises to reveal seeing ‘not as neutral, but as deeply entangled with lived experience’ really does come across as trying to teach its audience to suck eggs as large as the two prominently poised amid the display at hand. However, the aesthetic curation of the works on Zarastro Art’s stand at London Art Fair proves me wrong, offering something much more considered and well-constructed than its less well-chosen wording might suggest.
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