Frieze Magazine’s Ten Best Shows Around the World of 2025
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Frieze Magazine’s
Ten Best Shows Around the World of 2025
December 2025
Featuring Reginald Sylvester II’s solo show, On the Other Side of Languish at the Limbo Museum, Accra, Ghana
“ In October, Reginald Sylvester II inaugurated Accra’s new Limbo Museum with his first solo show in Africa. ‘On the Other Side of Languish’ is a meditative exhibition that entwines itself with its setting: an unfinished brutalist concrete structure on the University of Ghana’s campus, repurposed as a cultural space devoted to experimentation. Over his six-week residency, organized by the museum and Accra’s Gallery 1957, Sylvester produced 19 monumental sculptures alongside seven burnt-sienna abstract paintings, continuing his investigation into the industrial histories of rubber, tarp, aluminium and steel. Echoing the building’s skeletal frame, these sleek and minimalist steel works – such as Full Gate (Wireframe) and Jacob’s Dream – evoke crescent-shaped gateways, suggesting a transition into the spiritual realm. The exhibition nimbly positions Limbo as a provisional third space, where the unfinished becomes a site of clarity, motion and renewal. ‘On the Other Side of Languish’ runs until 9 January 2026.
– Ivana Cholakova
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