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Local and aesthetic: Frieze Projects East – in pictures

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Anthea Hamilton and Nicholas Byrne, Love
Hamilton and Byrne have filled Poplar Baths (which have been closed to the public since the 80s) with bright, freestanding inflatables. Not only do they play on the iconic Love sculpture by Robert Indiana, but they reference sex, popular culture and art-deco stylings (a nod to the baths themselves). Poplar Baths, Tower Hamlets, E14
Photograph: Polly Braden courtesy of Frieze
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Anthea Hamilton and Nicholas Byrne, Love
One of Hamilton and Byrne's pop culture inflatables
Photograph: Polly Braden courtesy of Frieze
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Anthea Hamilton and Nicholas Byrne, Love
Here's an inflatable that plays on Rodin's The Kiss
Photograph: Polly Braden courtesy of Frieze
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Gary Webb, Squeaky Clean
Webb's living artwork has been designed for children to clamber over. Charlton Park, Charlton Park Road, London SE7
Photograph: Polly Braden courtesy of Frieze
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Gary Webb, Squeaky Clean
Webb's saccharine design takes inspiration – and its colour palette – from E-numbers
Photograph: Polly Braden courtesy of Frieze
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Closeup of Gary Webb's Squeaky Clean Photograph: Polly Braden courtesy of Frieze
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Klaus Weber, Sandfountain
Weber's fountain sculpted from sand stops time in its tracks. 5 Sugar House Lane, E15
Photograph: Polly Braden courtesy of Frieze
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Klaus Weber, Sandfountain
It's a traditional three-tier structure, but has been designed to shower sand rather than water, which gives it a near-apocalyptic edge
Photograph: Polly Braden courtesy of Frieze
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Sarnath Banerjee, Gallery of losers (non-performers, almost winners, under-achievers, almost made-its)
Banerjee's funny illustrations adorn billboards throughout Barking and Dagenham, Greenwich, Hackney, Tower Hamlets and more
Photograph: Polly Braden courtesy of Frieze
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Sarnath Banerjee, Gallery of losers (non-performers, almost winners, under-achievers, almost made-its)
Banerjee's caroonish stories of epic near-misses and failures are heroic in their scale and audacity
Photograph: Polly Braden courtesy of Frieze
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Sarnath Banerjee, Gallery of losers (non-performers, almost winners, under-achievers, almost made-its)
Banerjee's almost made-its were designed to resonate with, and tickle, locals and visitors alike during the Olympics
Photograph: Polly Braden courtesy of Frieze
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More than 20 identical works by Altay will spring up to adorn all the major buildings in Waltham Forest
Photograph: Polly Braden courtesy of Frieze
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Altay's large mirror ball works will become gigantic doorknobs …
Photograph: Polly Braden courtesy of Frieze
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… that locals are very much encouraged to touch
Photograph: Polly Braden courtesy of Frieze
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