CFGNY

CFGNY

Cute Friend Group NY, 2024

Set of 3 stuffed animals; packaged in a custom glass tupperware measuring 9.3 L x 6.9 W x 3.4 H (inches)

Series of 100 unique works

 

Acquiring this limited edition from SculptureCenter helps to support our exhibitions and programs providing artists space to incubate ideas, experiment with materials, and present works that might have otherwise never been realized.

 

Cute Friend Group NY, 2024 is a new edition created by artist collective CFGNY to support SculptureCenter. The edition features a ragtag group of three stuffed animals encased in a glass tupperware.

 

CFGNY often uses stuffed animals in their work to provoke an ambivalent relationship to cuteness. Cuteness as an aesthetic highlights a force of attraction that borders on repulsion. A cute object beckons for attention and care with its childlike features while provoking feelings of aggression through its pitiful stature. So cute you could eat it! (Hence the tupperware.) Sharpening the razor’s edge of the adorable, CFGNY offers a “Cute Friend Group” that is plush to the touch while signaling the group’s concerns for the hand-made, the queer, and intersecting aesthetics of objectification.

 

Founded in 2016 as an ongoing dialogue on the intersection of art, fashion, and identity, artist collective CFGNY continually returns to the term "vaguely Asian": an understanding of racial identity as a specific cultural experience combined with the experience of being perceived as other. In addition to using fashion as a readymade, CFGNY’s practice spans mediums such as video, performance, architectural installation, and sculpture, researching the ways in which material assemblage and reproduction play a part in the formation and racialization of such “vaguely Asian” identities. CFGNY does not wish to represent what it means to be “Asian” in the singular; instead, it encourages the visualization of the countless ways one is able to be in the plural. CFGNY is composed of Daniel Chew, Ten Izu, Kirsten Kilponen, and Tin Nguyen.

 

In October 2024, CFGNY was named Frieze London’s Focus Stand Prize winner for their presentation with Hot Wheels, Athens and London. Recent exhibitions and presentations include: Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial, Cooper Hewitt, New York (2024); Refashioning: CFGNY & Wataru Tominaga, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2024); with Wardrobe, Abrons Art Center, New York (2023); CFGNY in Residence, SculptureCenter, New York (2023); Fashion Max 2, Japan Society, New York (2023); Refashioning: CFGNY & Wataru Tominaga, Japan Society, New York (2022); Import Imprint, Bel Ami, Los Angeles (2022); Endless Garment, X Museum, Beijing (2021); Certain Forgotten Gestures Near Yourself, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; Collecting Dissonance, Auto Italia, London (2021); Synthetic Blend V, RISD Museum, Providence, RI (2019); KAYA_The Store, Capri, Düsseldorf (2018); Surface Trend, Seward Park, New York (2019); New Fashion II, 47 Canal, New York (2018); Junbi, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2018); Fake Fashion III, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2018).

 

$300.00