Massinissa Selmani in The Guardian

What to see at this year’s Frieze art fair

Disquieting dreamlike drawings


In the fair’s Artist-to-Artist section, six grandees have been invited to nominate six less familiar names for a solo display. Zineb Sedira has chosen the Algerian-born Massinissa Selmani, nominated for France’s Marcel Duchamp prize in 2023 for his dreamlike drawings and animations. Crisp and restrained, they are assembled from precise and sparing details – ladders, huts, walls strung with barbed wire – at once gently surreal and subtly disquieting.

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