2026 | London
"Structure is never fixed, but rather continually reflecting how environments are built, undone, and reimagined."
CARBON 12 is delighted to return to Frieze London 2026 featuring works by Anthony Akinbola, Sarah Almehairi, Nour Malas and Amba Sayal-Bennett. Across their practices, each artist navigates material and structure as sites of inquiry, offering a certain introspection found within each approach. Beginning with a system - whether architectural, linguistic, contemplative or cultural - their work evolves through process, repetition, and intervention, arriving at frameworks that shape how meaning, identity, and space are formed.
Emirati artist Sarah Almehairi engages space, structure, and abstraction as evolving systems. Her practice often begins with frameworks such as grids, frames, and measured forms, that are then folded, cut, and reconfigured through intuitive mark-making. Through her Off Centric & Off Centered series, surfaces have become sculptural, and negative space integral as it gains material presence, allowing absence to shape meaning as much as form. Structure is never fixed, but rather continually reflecting how environments are built, undone, and reimagined. The focus is also shifting into two main elements through the work. The first: how the line becomes something that is read and revisited within the composition, and how that changes the way that the work is encountered and perceived. The second: the new techniques that introduce different textures as a form itself, bringing out different materialities allowing for new connections to appear.
