CHERUBY is proud to launch its inaugural residency programme. For our first edition, we have invited Mexican artist Bárbara Sánchez-Kane as our resident artist. During his three-month stay in Shanghai from September to November, our dedicated residency curators will provide support for his research investigations and facilitate local network connections. This residency marks Sánchez-Kane’s first participation in a programme of this kind throughout his artistic career, and CHERUBY is deeply honoured to support his contextual research while witnessing the unfolding of a creative journey in Shanghai.

This exhibition forms part of CHERUBY’s ongoing reflection on the evolving aesthetic regimes that shape both fashion and art. The entangled relationship between the two is well established—at once reciprocal and oppositional—giving rise to a spectrum of aesthetic by-products: from superficial strategies of innovation and compulsive consumption habits to convenient modes of cross-reference and the flawed technologies and metrics devised to quantify taste. In commissioning artist Andrew J. Greene to develop a project grounded in the material and affective qualities of everyday objects—and presenting it in Shanghai in the form of an exhibition—Cheruby seeks not only to foreground the inherent resilience of things themselves for local audiences, but also to question the entrenched assumptions, discursive hierarchies, and inherited modes of address that continue to shape our encounters with art and fashion under the pressures of consumer culture.

The Hyundai Commission: Mire Lee: Open Wound: Closing Programme: A Map of the Pit is supported by Cherry Xu / CHERUBY.