Second Skin

Curated by Hayaty Diaries

Artists:
Amina Yahia, Fa Razavi, Tiyana Mitchell, Leily Moghtader Mojdehi, Elias Loudiyi, and Yasmina Hilal 

Date
Oct 16-26
During Frieze Week, London 2026

Location
10 Greatorex Street, London, United Kingdom E1 5NF | @greatorexstreet_e1

Skin is our first story. It carries us, announces us, and meets the touch of others. secondskin looks beyond that first surface to the traces left when bodies meet—moments when someone else’s presence becomes a new layer of our own.

Here, skin is more than flesh. It is the memory of a hand. The echo of a voice. The warmth of a stranger imagined. It is fabric, atmosphere, and dream. These are the second skins we carry: the people, the moments, the encounters that settle over us, quietly shaping who we are, how we move, how we remember.

This exhibition gathers six artists who document, reinvent, and conjure the body in relation. Some turn to family archives, others to spontaneous portraits or invented figures that hover between worlds. Each piece asks how connection—brief or enduring—becomes part of the body’s history.

To move through secondskin is to experience the body as a field of encounters: a shifting landscape of selves meeting selves; every touch telling a story, every story becoming another skin.