Since moving to Santa Monica Airport in 2023, Frieze Los Angeles has featured aeronautical art, from Basil Kincaid’s quilt-covered plane (2023) to this year’s aerial- choreography project by the artist Madeline Hollander and the Santa Monica Flyers flight school. Another project takes the theme citywide during this year’s edition: a collaboration between the conceptual artist Coco Fusco, the gallery Mendes Wood DM and the out-of-home advertising company Orange Barrel Media, which has placed images from Fusco’s skywriting project Only in Darkness on digital billboards throughout Los Angeles. The displays feature azure skies punctuated with skywritten words and phrases like “Can you see the stars”, provoking reflection about the state of our environment.
