Focus returns for the 20th edition of Frieze London, from 11 to 15 October in The Regent’s Park. Dedicated to galleries founded within the last 12 years, Focus 2023 has been advised by Angelina Volk (Emalin, London), Piotr Drewko (Wschód, Warsaw) and Cédric Fauq (Chief Curator at CAPC Musée d’art contemporain Bordeaux).

This year’s edition comprises 34 galleries from 18 countries and features several spaces participating in a Frieze for the first time: Crisis, Franz Kaka, Ginny on Frederick, Harlesden High Street, Heidi, HOA, Llano and Vardaxoglou. Focus creates a platform for emerging artists across generations, cultures and continents. For many, this will be their art fair debut, for some, their first solo exhibition. Here are ten highlights from the 2023 section.

Sweetwater presents a series of new works by Hanna Stiegeler, whose practice examines consumerism and commercialism through photography and mixed-media printing. For this latest project, Stiegeler takes the 19th-century practice of painting fans with impressionist scenes as her departure point: she replaces Edgar Degas and Camille Pisarro’s idyllic vignettes of nature and leisure with printed photographs of merchandise and branding in shopping malls.