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Zadie Xa: Long ago when tigers smoked

The Box
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 8AX

Tel: 01752304774

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See textile paintings and sculptures by Canadian artist Zadie Xa, inspired by historic objects from The Box's collections.

'Long ago when tigers smoked' is a solo exhibition by Canadian artist Zadie Xa. Xa has explored The Box's permanent collections and crafted her project around two selected objects, which will also be on display: an 1800s tiger puppet from Myanmar and a bamboo pipe from Korea that was acquired in 1910. Both objects are connected by Korean folk tales involving tigers smoking on long pipes, which simultaneously indicates something that may have happened a long time ago, but also invokes an idea of when everyone was equal, even humans and animals.

This dialogue with The Box's historical collections will further expand on Xa's interest and exploration of the trickster archetype and its manifestation within animals as they appear in mythology, and folklore.

The exhibition includes new textile paintings and sculptures made in collaboration with artist Benito Mayor Vallejo.

Zadie Xa works across performance, textiles, sound and painting. Based in London, her work is informed by her experiences within the Korean population living across the world, as well as the environmental and cultural context of the Pacific Northwest in North America/Canada. Throughout her practice, Xa uses animals, water and marine ecologies as metaphors for exploring the unknown, whilst also alluding to abstract notions of home.

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