Inside London Sculpture Week: ‘go out and be inspired’

For the first time, this year Frieze Sculpture also has a title: In The Shadows. Üstek says this is about the shadow as a literary concept, as an art concept, and as a metaphor which encourages an engagement with the times we live in. “There are crises erupting left and right,” she says, “So I want to use free sculpture as a platform to discuss issues out loud. Shadows create an anticipation of fear, and we avoid stepping into them. I wanted to create a space of bravery, in that way. Shadows are not mere voids. They are zones of potential, where stories unfold quietly yet powerfully, often out of sight.”