From nine-tailed foxes to a creature modelled after her dog, Xa uses unusual animals to explore human society
A mythological grandmother riding a fantastical lion is the opening sculpture in Zadie Xa’s immersive installation, “Nine-Tailed Tall Tales: Trickster, Mongrel, Beast”. It is flanked by two brilliantly coloured abstract linen patchworks suspended from the ceiling. One alludes to Korea’s seven rising moons; the other to the seven setting suns of Canada’s Pacific north-west, the artist’s birthplace.
She turned to ancestral crafts and performance, together with ideas of “protest, community and women’s work”. Bojagi embodies matrilineal knowledge passed down through sewing rather than writing, and she senses kinship elsewhere, such as with theWhen she recently returned to painting, sometimes framing figurative oils with bojagi patchwork, it was with a narrative edge unfashionable during her student days.
Putative hags and witches are reclaimed as archetypal heroines. In the opening space, in which Grandmother Mago rides a haetae — half-lion, half-goat — modelled on the artist’s Pekingese dog, Xa reimagines an “east Asian deity who created the Earth with her excrement and urine”. Whereas “creation myths, especially in Korea, generally start with a man”, her goddess is a “vulgar, visceral image of a powerful elderly woman who works with her hands”.
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