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Jhaveri Contemporary’s presentation at Frieze New York shines a light on contemporary drawing-based work from South Asia and its diaspora. Collectively, the artworks on view offer a more expansive and dynamic view of drawing and mark making, encompassing a wide range of techniques – frottage, constructive photography – and materials – clay, felt, found objects – to mine personal and collective histories.

In Pressing In (2016), Simryn Gill takes direct prints from small pieces of timber picked up on daily walks on beaches near her studio in Malaysia. Most of these pieces are from boats, or …