“Little Spies Spread Around the City” | Residency journal of Bárbara Sánchez-Kane

With this film, CHERUBY delves into the threads left behind by Sánchez-Kane during his residency in Shanghai. It is not a retrospective of finished works, but an observational practice that brings us closer to his modes of thinking and processes of becoming. Centered on his working state, the film captures those moments in which materials are tested, structures are overturned, and the body is continually negotiating with systems—moments still in formation.

Andrew J. Greene: Taste

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.