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Next Week find Loucia Carlier at NADA NYC booth A10 THIRD BORN presents a solo booth by Loucia Carlier (@louciacarlier ) in NADA’s Projects Section. An expansion of the artist’s series “Cheap Dreams,” developed at La Becque, Switzerland, Carlier uses the miniature as both reverie and critique, revealing how domestic objects transmit power, habit, and norms. Combining carpentry, upholstery, collage, and metalwork, Carlier builds disorienting interiors where the ordinary becomes suspect — she stages the self as both agent and captive, testing how identity is shaped within domestic space. For receive a preview or for sales inquires, please DM us or contact [email protected] NADA NYC Fair Hours VIP Wednesday, May 13, 10am – 7pm Thursday, May 14, 11am — 7pm Friday, May 15, 11am — 7pm Saturday, May 16, 11am — 7pm Sunday, May 17, 11am — 5pm Imagery courtesy of the Artist & THIRD BORN A presentation supported by @fondationdesartistes . . . . . #THIRDBORN #NADANYC

FRENCH PLACE, @french__place Text By: Caterina Avataneo @cateavataneo Artist: Anna de Castro Barbosa @annbarbosanna With the support of @thirdborn.mx Ph: Francesco Paleari

Behind the scenes of Anna de Castro Barbosa’s research for her residency at @french__place , concluding in the solo presentation Il Quiproquo, on view through June 28, 2026. The exhibition emerges from Barbosa’s investigation of perception, fragmentation, and the unstable form. Evoking the folding screen and the fan, it stages concealment and revelation—images, bodies, and narratives that appear partially, slipping between recognition and ambiguity. During the residency Barbosa advanced her work in bronze, working closely with a foundry in Verona to produce a series of fan works titled Il Quiproquo—a misunderstanding in which one thing is mistaken for another. The presentation further interrogates body, desire, and otherness, concentrating on the moment before contact where attraction and unease converge. Made from materials that both invite and resist touch and incorporating repurposed medical instruments, the threshold‑like works on view balance seduction and repulsion, framing intimacy and distance as fragile, unresolved encounters. We are deeply grateful to Marta (@marta_orsola_sironi ) and Mauro (@mauro__mattei ), the entire French Place team, and Caterina Avataneo (@cateavataneo ) for supporting and facilitating this residency and presentation. For inquiries on available works please DM us or email [email protected] Lead image by @titi_m.cerina BTS imagery courtesy of @annbarbosanna . . . . . #THIRDBORN #FRENCHPLACE #ANNADECASTROBARBOSA

When Things Begin to Act continues with Mariana Ledesma & Vytautas Kumža. A CONDO collaboration between Copperfield, London & THIRD BORN  DM us to schedule an appointment @condo_complex @_mariana_ledesma_ @vytautaskumza @copperfield_london Image courtesy of THIRD BORN photo by @asistenciaartistica . . . . . #THIRDBORN #CONDO

CONDO CDMX STARTS THIS THURSDAY✨ CONDO OPENING Thursday, April 23 12 - 8 PM COLLECTORS PANEL & APERITIVO at THIRD BORN Saturday, April 25 4 - 7 PM Mariana Ledesma Matriz no proyectada, 2026  Discarded cables Variable dimensions  120 x 96cm 47.24 x 37.80 in.  Image courtesy of the Artist. . . . . . #THIRDBORN #CONDO #Copperfield

OPENING NEXT WEEK! When Things Begin to Act Mariana Ledesma & Vytautas Kumža A collaboration between Copperfield, London & THIRD BORN CONDO OPENING Thursday, April 23 12 - 8 PM COLLECTORS PANEL & APERITIVO Saturday, April 25 4 - 7 PM In a moment of material excess and technological turnover, When Things Begin to Act, asks us to rethink objects as agents—active, affective, and generative. Ledesma’s repurposed circuits and sound‑electronic systems make debris and circuitry resonate, foregrounding contingency, failure, and embodied listening. Kumža’s carefully staged everyday things—fractured glass, gloves, metal frameworks—strip function to produce uncanny, emotionally charged tableaux. Together the works activate objects as sites of tension, relation, and perceptual transformation, inviting a renewed attention to the material conditions of daily life. Vytautas Kumža Dizziness, 2022 Archival inkjet print, opaque glass, hinge, aluminium frame 50 x 40 cm 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in Image courtesy of Copperfield . . . . . #THIRDBORN #CONDO #CONDOMEXICOCITY

“I share with THIRD BORN a love for Chicago—its architecture, its artists, its political and social histories, music, design—there’s an unmistakable materiality and way of communicating in form that I adore. I’m hyped to be there.” —Sidony O’Neal EXPO CHICAGO curator Essence Harden (@essenceh ) speaks to Sidony O’Neal (@sidony_oneal ) on showing up experimental, unusual, and specific. Forgot to pick up your copy of the limited EXPO ART WEEK? You’re in luck—read the feature at the link in bio.

Today marks the last day of Expo Chicago! Come visit us with Sidony O’Neal at B313 till 6:00 PM. Sidony O’Neal Program for fireback with sacrificial anode, 2023 Pallet, aluminium, steel, printed inconel, vapor-smoothed 86.4 x 76.2 x 22.9 cm 34 x 30 x 9 in Program for fireback with sacrificial anode (2023) functions as a provisional system where materials, symbols, and structural fragments interact through mathematical, architectural, and poetic logics. Drawing on computation, translation, and symbolic reasoning, O’Neal creates environments where objects act as interfaces for circulating meaning. Industrial and ornamental vocabularies collide in an unstable configuration: a pallet-like platform supports repeated linear elements and decorative aluminum forms like baroque or algorithmic fragments, while resin-like pieces punctuate the grid as irregular markers. The piece reads as platform, diagram, and stage, suggesting infrastructure and code and inviting viewers to see sculpture as an interface where patterns emerge, fracture, and recombine. Image courtesy of the Artist . . . . . #THIRDBORN #expochicago

Sidony O’Neal BF_MOTION, 2026 Inkjet, heat sink, gampi, pigment, artist mat, artist frame 60.96 x 78.74 x 3.81 cm 24 x 31 x 1.5 in. On view now at EXPO Chicago B131 Lead Image first published in Expo Art Week (April 2026) by Frieze Publishing Ltd. Photo by Pat Martin (@patmartin__ ) Artwork image courtesy of the Artist . . . . . #THIRDBORN #expochicago

Our presentation of Sidony O’Neal at EXPO Chicago opens today within Essence Harden’s PROFILE Section. @sidony_oneal @expochicago @essenceh 📍B313 To receive a preview please DM us or email [email protected] . . . . #THIRDBORN #expochicago

Anna de Castro Barbosa The lie lies, 2026 Variables Dimensions Textile, PVC, plaster, glass, plexiglass (acrylic), silicones, talc. 🥚🥚🥚🥚 Exhibited at @salondemontrouge_ , 2026 Image courtesy of the Artist & @victorunwin & Aurélien Mole . . . . . #THIRDBORN

CONDO returns to Mexico City ✨ April 23–26, 2026 Copperfield, London and THIRD BORN, Mexico City will present for Condo: When Things Begin to Act, an exhibition of work by Vytautas Kumža and Mariana Ledesma. The exhibition explores the active life of matter—where objects are not passive, but perform, vibrate, generate tension, and shape our experience of space. Through Ledesma’s sound-electronic systems and Kumža’s photographic and sculptural tableaux, the familiar becomes unstable and charged. On view through May 22, 2026. Collectors Panel Discussion Saturday, April 25, 2026 4:00 PM A conversation on collecting strategies, cross-border exchange, and collaborative models like CONDO. - Images: Vytautas Kumža Are you asleep? Archival ink-jet print, metal tube, metal hardware, hair, aluminum frame 50 x 40 cm 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. Image Courtesy of the Artist and Copperfield, London. Mariana Ledesma Máquina Blanda, 2025 Copper plate, ferric acid, fitted electronic circuit Image Courtesy of Castillo Interior . . . . . #THIRDBORN #CONDO #Copperfield