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Artist Debuts and Inspired Duos Define the Can’t-Miss Booths at Independent
By Tessa Solomon | May 14, 2026
6. Uffner & Liu
Uffner & Liu brings together the work of Venezuelan artist Bernadette Despujols and Brazilian artist Sacha Ingber in a duo presentation that threads questions of motherhood, migration, and the wandering self across textured painting and near-functional design. Ingber’s backgammon table can certainly sustain a game, though water may not hold in her perforated vessel—two empty bodies shaped like homes, tenuously bridged. Meanwhile, in Despujols’s textured paintings, the lights are on and everyone is home: family members crowd the frame and seem to merge with vegetation in an ecofeminist vision of generational continuity. But this is life, not fiction. In one work, a quiet figure crouches beside a snarling dog, a flicker of domestic tension cutting through the chatter.
