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For the 2019 London edition of the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, James Cohan will present new and important works by Firelei Báez, Yinka Shonibare CBE, and Elias Sime at Booth W19. The fair will host a preview day on Wednesday, October 2 and is open to the public from Thursday, October 3 through Sunday, October 6.

Rendering her subjects in complex layers of pattern and imagery, New York-based, Dominican-born artist Firelei Báez reconfigures visual references drawn from the past to explore new possibilities for the future. By overlapping representational motifs, Báez carries portraiture …