Culture Magazine - Sam Falb
"Conductor will also unwittingly act as a mini-preview to another landmark moment on the global art calendar—the Venice Biennale—as several artists and collectives taking over national pavilions, like Mexico’s RojoNegro and Cameroon’s Beya Gille Gacha, will first pop up at the fair. Sculptural interventions in the Special Projects category, by the likes of Grace Rosario Perkins, Khaled Jarrar, and Lido Pimienta, will form the connective tissue between the booths. “Without the artists, there are no galleries,” Farietta reminds us. Her colleague Eric Shiner, the president of Powerhouse Arts, chimes in, “Art fairs aren’t necessarily a place for artists, and we want this one to actually feel like home.”"
