“Mis-Shapes” Exhibition

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Curated by Catalina Schliebener Muñoz
Text by Nicolas Cuello

Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is pleased to present Mis-Shapes, a group exhibition curated by Catalina Schliebener Muñoz (b. Chile, 1980) featuring artists Ad Minoliti (b. Argentina, 1980), KC Crow Maddux (b. US, 1980) and Madeline Jimenez Santil (b. Dominican Republic, 1986) with text by Nicolas Cuello (b. Argentina, 1989). The artists involved are also producing a limited edition zine as part of the exhibition. The zine will launch at a special event at the gallery on August 28.

Mis-Shapes brings together a group of artists working at the intersection of abstraction and the body: trans, non-binary, and racialized bodies; bodies without a singular form or name; bodies that resist being co-opted. Combining elements of photography, installation, drawing, and found objects like sex toys and stuffed animals, among others, the pieces on display respond to the space they are situated within, extending outward rather than sitting tidily inside of a frame.

Each of the artists, in different ways, meshes the corporal with their own lexicon of geometry and symbols, expressing and exploring a tension between idealized structures and fleshy, soft, pulsating forms. Rather than deconstructing abstraction in a purely intellectual exercise the work opens up the possibility of new shapes, new bodies, slipping between and around the expected, challenging viewers’ assumptions about who or what kinds of bodies operate how and in what spaces.

This exhibition is Catalina Schliebener Muñoz’s curatorial debut with Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York.

Ad Minoliti (b. Buenos Aires, 1980) makes experimental installations around geometry and abstraction that encompass art history, architecture, queer feminism, childhood, animalism, and speculative fiction. Minoliti looks for a non-binary geometry where gender theories are applied to pictorial language using collage and mixed media. They have participated in several residencies such as Gasworks & URRA London, FRAC Pays De La Loire, and Kadist San Francisco. Their work has been exhibited at galleries, institutions, and museums in Korea, Peru, México, Japan, Brazil, China, Bolivia, Chile, among other countries. Recent projects were exhibited at ICA Los Angeles, MCA Puerto Rico, TANK Shanghai, Fondation Pernod Ricard, MoMA Buenos Aires, Times Museum Guangzhou, MASS MoCA, Kunsthalle Lissabon Lisboa, MCA Puerto Rico, and Tallinn Art Hall Estonia. Recent solo shows were presented at BALTIC and Tate St Ives (UK), CCCOD (France), Antenna Space (China), and La Casa Encendida (Spain). They participated in the X Bienal del Mercosur Porto Alegre 2015, the Aichi Triennale 2016, Front Cleveland Triennale 2018, 58th Venice Biennale 2019, 13th Gwangju Biennale 2021, Biennale de Nice 2022.

KC Crow Maddux (b. US, 1980) is a Brooklyn based, trans artist whose work is intentionally difficult to categorize. Their pieces employ photography, painting, and sculptural processes together; creating a “trans” format. They are interested in the friction between the specific embodied self and the abstract, taxonomic language we often use. Maddux has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, the Fire Island Artist Residency, Lighthouse Works, Wassaic Project, and the Vermont Studio Center. Their work has appeared and been written about in ArtForum, The NEw York Times, Forbes, New Flesh, Original Plumbing, Filthy Dreams, and Hyperallergic. They have recently shown at Marquee Projects, A.I.R Gallery, 1969 Gallery, Field Projects, Spring/Break, Haul, and Vox Populi. In 2020, their work was in the two-person inaugural exhibition by the Compton Trans Cultural District in San Francisco. Their work was recently included in “Not me, Not that, Not nothing either” at the Leslie Lohman GLBT Museum. They have had solo exhibitions at High Noon Gallery (NYC) this September and Turley Gallery (Hudson) in January.

Madeline Jiménez Santil (b. Dominican Republic, 1986) has an artistic practice developed around the possible relationships between the body/matter and geometry, rethinking the condition of the exotic, the strange, and migration, approaching them from the understanding of her own body and in permanent dialogue with the space that surrounds her. Through her research, she is interested in thinking about the possibilities of building a “decolonial object” and investigating the way in which it operates when entering the structures of contemporary art. Since 2006 she has lived and worked between Mexico and the Dominican Republic. Her most recent solo exhibition is “Baby dale suave cuando bajes” (2021) at Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City. She has participated in various group exhibitions, including “One month after being known in that island” (2020) at the Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger in Basel, Switzerland; “Other worlds” (2020) at the Tamayo Museum in Mexico City, and “Mesotropics” (2021) at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama. She has been a guest artist at the XIV FEMSA Biennial-Inestimable Azar (2020, Morelia / Pátzcuaro, Mexico), the Kochi Muziris Biennale (2016, India), and the XXVII National Biennial of Visual Arts of Santo Domingo (2013, Dominican Republic). In addition, she has been invited to the artist residency programs of Casa Wabi in 2019 and the Caribbean Art Initiative in 2020. She was recently awarded a Creative Capital Research and Production Grant.