Pace is pleased to present Nina Katchadourian: Natural Selectionat its Hong Kong space, marking the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery in Asia.

The presentation will be complemented by an online exhibition of works from the artist’s new Fake Plants series.

In many projects spanning several decades, Nina Katchadourian has considered the contradictory implications of the word “natural” and explored the relationships between human and non-human animals, sometimes intervening in ways she terms “uninvited collaborations with nature.” For the Mended Spiderwebs series (1998), Katchadourian mended broken spiderwebs with red sewing thread only to discover that the spider always rejected her repairs, threw out the patches, and repaired the web with its own thread. She “fixed” a mushroom using a bicycle tire patch kit and subsequently photographed it to create Renovated Mushroom (1998). In Artificial Insemination (1998), an iconic scientific image—the moment when a sperm fertilizes an egg—is deliberately misunderstood and restaged: Katchadourian reimagines the scene using tadpoles fished out of a pond and a chicken’s egg placed in water on a dinner plate.

Gallery address: 12/F, H Quenn’s, Central