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For the past 20 years, Frieze London has been one of the world’s most prestigious contemporary art fairs. Not somewhere you might expect to find videogames as a subject, then. But as an artist and committed player himself, Larry Achiampong incorporates the medium into his latest exhibition. Not just in the works – a series of portraits featuring reimaginings of iconic game characters – but in the space itself, which has been set up like a gaming room. “I wanted to make sure that it was interactive,” he explains, “so there’s actual games that you can

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