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Some ribs are always soft

Areez Katki
12 Jul – 5 Aug 2023
Some ribs are always soft install view
Areez Katki
Some ribs are always soft install view
Areez Katki
Some ribs are always soft install view
Areez Katki
Some ribs are always soft install view
Areez Katki
Some ribs are always soft install view
Areez Katki
Some ribs are always soft install view
Areez Katki
Some ribs are always soft install view
Areez Katki
Some ribs are always soft install view
Areez Katki
Some ribs are always soft install view
Areez Katki
Some ribs are always soft install view
Areez Katki
Some ribs are always soft install view
Areez Katki

About the exhibition

McLeavey Gallery is thrilled to present, Some ribs are always soft, an exhibition of new works by Areez KatkiSome ribs are always soft is Areez’s second solo exhibition with McLeavey Gallery and his only exhibition in 2023.

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McLeavey Gallery is thrilled to present, Some ribs are always soft, an exhibition of new works by Areez KatkiSome ribs are always soft is Areez’s second solo exhibition with McLeavey Gallery and his only exhibition in 2023. 

Described by Kim Hill, when interviewed by her in 2022, as a ‘something of a rising star in the New Zealand contemporary art scene’, Areez is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. His practice explores genetic and cultural origins through embroidery, tapestry, weaving, beading, painting, printmaking, sculpture and poetry.

Since his inaugural exhibition with McLeavey Gallery, All my books have faded spines, in March of 2022, Areez has exhibited both internationally and throughout New Zealand. His 2022 New Zealand exhibitions included There Is No Other Home But This (with Khadim Ali) at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth. Already in 2023 Areez has had his work acquired by Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, completed his time as the Tylee Cottage artist-in-residence as the craft/object-based practitioner and most recently has been working on a project which is bound for Venice. 

In Some ribs are always soft Areez presents a number of his finely detailed, gestural textile works he is best known for alongside a series of 11 works on paper. The series of work on paper are explored in an essay by Tendai Mutambu: 

'For a series of new works in his exhibition, titled Some ribs are always soft, Areez Katki visually interprets Ahad 'asher kaukaban (Eleven Planets) by Mahmoud Darwish, working from the original Arabic (composed in 1992), and Agha Shahid Ali’s 1994 English translation, Eleven Stars Over Andalusia. The resulting images speak to his own autoethnography hewn from his Zoroastrian and Parsi ancestries, in conversation with the two exiled poets, Darwish and Shahid Ali: one Palestinian and the other, his translator, an Indian-Afghani.'

Please contact the gallery for a complete copy of the essay by Tendai Mutambu.

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Chaharshanabeh Suri
Areez Katki, 2023
Cotton embroidery on handwoven cloth, 880 x 990 mm (framed)
Magi
Areez Katki, 2023
Cotton embroidery on handwoven cloth, 880 x 990 mm (framed)
Ashem Vohu
Areez Katki, 2023
Cotton embroidery on handwoven muslin, 640 x 640 mm (framed)
Avan Roj Avan Mahino
Areez Katki, 2023
Cotton embroidery on handwoven muslin, 640 x 640 mm (framed)
Yatha Ahu Vairyo
Areez Katki, 2023
Cotton embroidery on handwoven muslin, 640 x 640 mm (framed)
Above the waist: somatic movement one
Areez Katki, 2022
Cotton embroidery on overdyed cotton cummerbund, 950 x 470 mm (framed)
Below the waist: somatic movement two
Areez Katki, 2022
Cotton embroidery on overdyed cotton cummerbund, 950 x 470 mm (framed)
I. Perfumes are ready by the door
Areez Katki, 2023
Mixed media (watercolour, chalk, pastel, graphite) on Arches cotton paper, 400 x 400 mm (framed)
II. Some ribs are always soft
Areez Katki, 2023
Mixed media (watercolour, chalk, pastel, graphite) on Arches cotton paper, 400 x 400 mm (framed)
III. He’ll live in my bedroom in Ithaka
Areez Katki, 2023
Mixed media (watercolour, chalk, pastel, graphite, archival PVA, found paper) on Arches cotton paper, 400 x 400 mm (framed)
IV. Sherds for tomorrow
Areez Katki, 2023
Mixed media (watercolour, chalk, pastel, graphite) on Arches cotton paper, 400 x 400 mm (framed)
V. One day I will sit on the pavement
Areez Katki, 2023
Mixed media (watercolour, chalk, pastel, graphite) on Arches cotton paper, 400 x 400 mm (framed)
VI. Blaue Ziegel
Areez Katki, 2023
Mixed media (watercolour, chalk, pastel, graphite) on Arches cotton paper, 400 x 400 mm (framed)
VII. Milk from the lip of the fig
Areez Katki, 2023
Mixed media (watercolour, chalk, pastel, graphite, archival PVA, found paper) on Arches cotton paper, 400 x 400 mm (framed)
VIII. Macron to spell Āreez
Areez Katki, 2023
Mixed media (watercolour, chalk, graphite) on Arches cotton paper, 400 x 400 mm (framed)
IX. In the exodus I love you more
Areez Katki, 2023
Mixed media (watercolour, chalk, pastel, graphite, archival PVA, Tyvek) on Arches cotton paper, 400 x 400 mm (framed)
X. Window from the orchard of your shawl
Areez Katki, 2023
Mixed media (watercolour, chalk, pastel, graphite) on Arches cotton paper, 400 x 400 mm (framed)
XI. Kamanja
Areez Katki, 2023
Mixed media (watercolour, chalk, pastel, graphite) on Arches cotton paper , 400 x 400 mm (framed)
Garden Drawing 1 (after P. Klee)
Areez Katki, 2023
Cotton embroidery on raw khadi, 335 x 345 mm
Garden Drawing 2 (after P. Klee)
Areez Katki, 2023
Cotton embroidery on raw khadi, 335 x 345 mm

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