In the majestic nave of the recently renovated Grand Palais, Everard Read Gallery showcased, for the first time at the fair, a selection of internationally recognised artists and emerging talent.

Among the ranks was a delicate and ethereal study in lilac by Caryn Scrimgeour; A sloping porcelain limb by Nicola Bailey; various sculptural iterations of Mary Sibande's iconic character, Sophie; pensive John Meyers; and Mmakgabo Mmapula Helen Sebidi's kalediscopic figures; among others.

Another booth highlight was Gerhard Marx's Topiary (Dimensional Botanical). Marx's work blends nature with physical depictions of space – ‘spatial imaginaries’. He explores how these descriptions of space affect and shape that which it describes. Everard Read  is looking forward to opening Marx's first solo exhibition with the London gallery this October. 

Another Key event was Mary Sibande's shortlisting for The Her Art Prize: an international reference award for Women Artists in partnership with Marie Claire and Boucheron

She was selected as one of only 20 artists to feature in the ‘Reparation/Repair’ themed curation of the fair, under Alexia Fabre, Deputy Director of the Centre Pompidou Francilien in Massy. Fabre explores contemporary creation through the lens of ‘repair’, a word that encompasses a territory whose meanings are multifaceted and vary depending on the artist, culture, and time period. By weaving connections between the past, present, and future, ‘Repair’ aims to recompose fragments and pieces, to heal wounds, whether physical or symbolic. It evokes both the silences and injustices of history and the desire to project this newly recomposed "whole" into the future. Repair, in effect, contains the idea of restoring oneself, a history, a reality that once was.