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Nine Lives

Past exhibition
22 July - 21 August 2021
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Nine Lives

Nine Lives is a group exhibition that looks to examine the perennial motif of cats within art. Across generations and cultures, felines have been used as a vehicle for symbolism, with their presence pointing to myriad signs – ranging from rebirth, femininity, to the domestic, and most perhaps most ominous and alluring, black magic. In this presentation, we are exposed to the various ways in which artists both lovingly and often equivocally portray this ever elegant and mysterious creature. 

 

Felines have long been subjects of human devotion. Within art, their presence can be traced back to the ancient Egyptians, for whom cats were not beloved supplicants, but revered deities. Today, cats remain an indelible symbol of intuition, independence and rebirth; qualities with equivocal connotations. Cats are considered harbingers of both good and evil. As spiritual guardians, their invocation is a protection from maleficent spirits, but in the hands of dark magic, they portend a dangerous unravelling. Perhaps it is this dichotomy which has sustained human interest in these mysterious and divine creatures.

 

Jessica Alazraki

Greg Burak 

Plum Cloutman

Chioma Ebinama 

Katelyn Eichwald 

Shanique Emelife 

Hadi Fallahpisheh

Cielo Felix Hernandez

Sally J. Han 

Mary Herbert

Miho Ichise

Thaleia Karpouzi

Minyoung Kim 

Sean Kierre Lyons 

Mayumi Nakao 

Chris Oh 

Mike Ousley 

Allison Schulnik

Tao Siqi

Agata Slowak 

Cheri Smith

Paige Turner-Uribe

Aleksandra Waliszewska

Andersen Woof

 

 

 

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Works
  • Agata Slowak, Self-portrait with little cat, 2021
    Agata Slowak, Self-portrait with little cat, 2021
  • Aleksandra Waliszewska, Cat, 2021
    Aleksandra Waliszewska, Cat, 2021
  • Chioma Ebinama, could you really love me as I am?, 2021
    Chioma Ebinama, could you really love me as I am?, 2021
  • Shanique Emelife, Creature Comforts, 2021
    Shanique Emelife, Creature Comforts, 2021
  • Tao Siqi, Strange Night, 2021
    Tao Siqi, Strange Night, 2021
  • Minyoung Kim, Cat Apartment, 2021
    Minyoung Kim, Cat Apartment, 2021
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Installation Views
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  • Fi 103
  • Fi 106
  • Fi 1
  • Fi 104
  • Fi 102
  • Fi 100
  • Fi 6
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Press
  • Tao Siqi, Strange Night, 2021, Oil on linen, 11 3/4 x 15 3/4 in

    THIS SUMMER, NEW YORK ART IS MAGIC, MYSTIC AND UNCANNY

    Annie Armstrong, Cultured, August 12, 2021
  • Agata Slowak, Self-portrait with little cat, 2021, Oil on canvas 31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in, 80 x 60 cm

    Nine Lives

    Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, August 9, 2021

Related artists

  • Greg Burak

    Greg Burak

  • Katelyn Eichwald

    Katelyn Eichwald

  • Shanique Emelife

    Shanique Emelife

  • Sally J. Han

    Sally J. Han

  • Chris Oh

    Chris Oh

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