Nina Katchadourian Natural Selection Past Nov 19 – Dec 23, 2021 Hong Kong Exhibition Details:Nina KatchadourianNatural SelectionNov 19 – Dec 23, 2021Gallery:80 Queen's Road CentralHong KongPress:Press ReleaseConnect: (opens in a new window) @pacegallery (opens in a new window) @ninakatchadourianAbove: Nina Katchadourian, Plant #30, 2021 © Nina Katchadourian Pace is pleased to present Nina Katchadourian: Natural Selection at its Hong Kong space, marking the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery in Asia. The presentation will be complemented by an online exhibition of works from the artist’s new Fake Plants series.In many projects spanning several decades, Nina Katchadourian has considered the contradictory implications of the word “natural” and explored the relationships between human and non-human animals, sometimes intervening in ways she terms “uninvited collaborations with nature.” For the Mended Spiderwebs series (1998), Katchadourian mended broken spiderwebs with red sewing thread only to discover that the spider always rejected her repairs, threw out the patches, and repaired the web with its own thread. She “fixed” a mushroom using a bicycle tire patch kit and subsequently photographed it to create Renovated Mushroom (1998). In Artificial Insemination (1998), an iconic scientific image—the moment when a sperm fertilizes an egg—is deliberately misunderstood and restaged: Katchadourian reimagines the scene using tadpoles fished out of a pond and a chicken’s egg placed in water on a dinner plate.Katchadourian’s explorations of this kind are often the result of spontaneous play and experimentation on Pörtö, a small island group in the southern Finnish archipelago, where she grew up spending summers with her family. Some works reflect a humorous, curious approach to the world and her place within it. Others, including Too Late (2003), a photograph of an abandoned bird’s nest in which seven eggs display the work’s title in capital letters, convey a distinct sense of despair. Another such work, the video installation Fugitive (2007), shows an orangutan traveling endlessly along a set of hanging wires, trapped within the loop of the monitors that display the zoo environment in which the creature lives.At the onset of the pandemic, Katchadourian began making artificial plants at home using materials like discarded cardboard boxes, paper packaging from food products, disposable medical masks, cardboard toilet paper tubes, ping pong balls, sewing pins, toothpicks, and leftover craft supplies. In a new series, titled Fake Plants (2021), the artist’s longstanding methodology of working with mundane materials close at hand intersects with her intense interest in “the natural.” Katchadourian harvests the cast-off materials she finds around her home, in her studio, or at a construction site she frequently passes and transforms them into multifarious plant forms. Katchadourian’s plants are based on her recollection and invention rather than accurate representations of existing species. Although these works take the form of peculiar flora and fauna belonging to unexplored or imagined landscapes, they ultimately bring viewers closer to the overlooked, familiar matter that constitutes their domestic lives. Read More Featured Works Nina Katchadourian, Renovated Mushroom, 1998, C-Print, 30-1/4" × 42-1/2" × 1" (76.8 cm × 108 cm × 2.5 cm), framed Learn More Close modal Nina Katchadourian Renovated Mushroom 1998 C-Print 30-1/4" × 42-1/2" × 1" (76.8 cm × 108 cm × 2.5 cm), framed Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Nina Katchadourian, Too Late, 2003, C-Print, print, 34" × 43" (86.4 cm × 109.2 cm) framed, 35-1/8" × 46-3/4" (89.2 cm × 118.7 cm) Learn More Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Nina Katchadourian Too Late 2003 C-Print print, 34" × 43" (86.4 cm × 109.2 cm) framed, 35-1/8" × 46-3/4" (89.2 cm × 118.7 cm) $5,500 Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Nina Katchadourian, Mended Spiderweb #14 (Spoon Patch), 1998, C-Print, print, 30" × 20" framed, 30-7/8" × 20-7/8" Learn More Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Carousel slide 4 Nina Katchadourian Mended Spiderweb #14 (Spoon Patch) 1998 C-Print print, 30" × 20" framed, 30-7/8" × 20-7/8" Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Nina Katchadourian, Artificial Insemination I, 1998, C-Print, framed, 22-3/8" × 22-3/4" × 2-1/4" Learn More Close modal Nina Katchadourian Artificial Insemination I 1998 C-Print framed, 22-3/8" × 22-3/4" × 2-1/4" Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Nina Katchadourian, Artificial Insemination II, 1998, C-Print, framed, 22-3/8" × 22-3/4" × 2-1/4" Learn More Close modal Nina Katchadourian Artificial Insemination II 1998 C-Print framed, 22-3/8" × 22-3/4" × 2-1/4" $6,500 Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Nina Katchadourian, Artificial Insemination III, 1998, C-Print, 22-3/8" × 22-3/4" × 2-1/4" (56.8 cm × 57.8 cm × 5.7 cm), framed Learn More Close modal Nina Katchadourian Artificial Insemination III 1998 C-Print 22-3/8" × 22-3/4" × 2-1/4" (56.8 cm × 57.8 cm × 5.7 cm), framed $6,500 Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Installation Views 1/15 2/15 3/15 4/15 5/15 6/15 7/15 8/15 9/15 10/15 11/15 12/15 13/15 14/15 15/15 Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Carousel slide 4 Carousel slide 5 Carousel slide 6 Carousel slide 7 Carousel slide 8 Carousel slide 9 Carousel slide 10 Carousel slide 11 Carousel slide 12 Carousel slide 13 Carousel slide 14 Online Exhibition Online Exhibition Nina Katchadourian Past Nov 19 – Dec 23, 2021 About the ArtistNina Katchadourian (b. 1968, Stanford, California) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes video, performance, sound, sculpture, photography, and public projects. Her video Accent Elimination was included at the 2015 Venice Biennial in the Armenian pavilion, which won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation.Learn More Journal View All Pace Live On Humor & Other Strategies for Survival Jun 01, 2021 Films Nina Katchadourian: Monument to the Unelected Nov 25, 2020 Essays Monument to the Unelected: Insights from Nina Katchadourian Sep 18, 2020 Pace Live Nina Katchadourian Talks to Lisa Liu Apr 27, 2020 Overview Featured Works Installation Views Online Exhibition About the Artist Journal