Alexa Wright

Obiter Dicta: an accidental conversation between visitors at Frieze London 2025 is a small book published by Piece of Paper Press. For several years I have been obsessively collecting fragments of conversation overheard on the streets close to where I live in London to create two previous artist’s books, Beside the Point and Between the Lines. Bringing this practice back into the heart of the art world in London, Obiter Dicta contains a short, fictional – possibly nonsensical – dialogue-based story compiled from unattributed and otherwise unconnected fragments of conversation overheard at Frieze London 2025 during my visit on 17 October.

 

"More than a collection of non-sequiturs, Obiter Dicta creates an evocative glimpse of one of the world’s most influential contemporary art fairs, in the words of a fleeting cross-section of visitors as they experience it." Tony White