Frieze London, 2026: José Jun Martinez, Dignora Pastorello, Claudia Alarcón & Silät

For Frieze London 2026, Cecilia Brunson Projects is pleased to present a group presentation of new works by José Jun Martínez and Claudia Alarcón & Silät, and historic paintings by Dignora Pastorello. The fair is open to the public 15-18 October, with a VIP preview on Wednesday 14 October.

José Jun Martínez (b. 1992, Bayamón, Puerto Rico) is a London-based painter whose work emerges from a sustained engagement with landscape, memory, and the sensory experience of place. Over the past decade, Martínez has developed a distinctive painting practice rooted in direct encounters with natural environments, often working in remote tropical settings before transforming these experiences into richly material, immersive compositions. His paintings navigate the space between observation and imagination, translating fleeting perceptions, atmospheric conditions, and personal reflection into luminous surfaces that oscillate between abstraction and landscape.

The works of Silät (Argentina, collective formed 2023) emerge from a collective model of making led by Claudia Alarcón and developed among more than one hundred Wichí women weavers in Northern Argentina. Working with chaguar fibre harvested from the Gran Chaco forest, the collective expands ancestral weaving traditions through collaborative processes that allow multiple makers to contribute to a single work. Their textiles draw on the visual language of the traditional yica bag while opening new possibilities for scale, abstraction, and collective authorship. At once acts of cultural continuity and innovation, the works embody forms of knowledge inseparable from both community and the fragile ecosystems in which chaguar grows.

Dignora Pastorello (b. 1913, Banfield, Argentina - d. 2001, Buenos Aires, Argentina) forged an independent position within postwar Argentine painting. The only woman in Grupo Cinco (the Group of Five) she sustained a rigorous practice across four decades, developing a language of flattened space and psychological tension at a remove from the period’s dominant movements. Her Buenos Aires rooftops, stairwells, and domestic interiors form a singular post-war modernism: quietly magical in register, exacting in atmosphere and uncompromising in ambition.

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