Naomi Citlali

„SOULJAHKITTYS“ Things were cooking and are cooked! THANK YOU! to all my friends who helped me out, because they are the greatest of all time! For strong helping hands, for sharp critique and smart decisions, for lending tools and a lot of your time, for pulling me out of the studio and respecting my absence when I disappeared in there for weeks. For the emotional support in far distance friendships :P This is a work about LOVE realized with my loved ones. Special thanks to @141k3_s it wouldn’t exist without you! @milesschuler it wouldn’t be as it is now! @baxmine for all the volunteering work with me and my wishes for the soundscape @matt._.muir for sanding even tho you hate it @amphibienfahrzeug for offering help here and there and whenever I needed @carolinalehan for endlessly carrying wood back and forth ❤️‍🩹

Studio visit with @carharttwip_de 🎲🖍️🫖 Photos by @florian_thoss_

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Bowing in reverence to … 🔊🔈??

Baby Pirates 💘

Souljahkittys It‘s all only noices and tones of voice. But somehow we know how to organise them. We put them in groups and align them in rows. Some tones need small circular speakers from which they tumble out in a high-pitched ringing. Some sounds wait in a spacious box before being pushed through a tunnel and filling the room with a deep bass that embraces us. As the sounds are composed they become a beat and a melody. And the moment they hit our body, they compose our gestures. The gestures become a dance. A language that we all speak and understand but nobody can translate. I don‘t need translation. When I see you dance I know that we are friends. I just react to your movements and the music. Music is an organized sequence of sounds. Like a ritual it has some strict rules, without which everything would fall apart into only noices and tones of voice. During a ritual times stands still. So does when we listen to music. And we could dance forever! Souljahkittys, 2025 Roominstallation, colour crayon on wood, aluminium, 4h sound loop, speakers

Back in the Box Okay this era is over! I say bye to uni, I have my Master now, and gonna work at construction site for even more brutally fine art in 2026 🖤☯️

Marseille VOL.4ever! Didn’t expect to show in this city at the beginning of the year, but this piece had the chance!

Episode 2 of FABULATIVE LORE: 𝑰𝒏 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒓𝒖𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 with @kayyoon and @effect137 We try to ask: 𝐷𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 - 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑? 𝑂𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤 - 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑟ℎ𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑚𝑠, 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠? And think: Culture is never pure, always in transition, forever in process, skin on skin. And music may be a natural hybrid composed of our harmonies and disharmonies, the pace of our movements, our facial expressions and inner affects, the tension and intention of our muscles. We build ourselves up in music or we show ourselves vulnerable, we free ourselves, we praise other things, we share and we sync through music. Sound waves can travel as fast as light and vibration is contagious. Music likes to flow, but we also need breaks, yes, they excite us, they redirect us, they confront us. They make us think and rearrange. Rearrange our boundaries, our pleasures, our rituals. The exhibition IN FLOW AND EVENTUAL DISRUPTION shows works by NAOMI CITLALI and KAY YOON that revolve around and move with sound - as keeper, disruptor and shaper of cultural practices. A zoom-in on Mexican and Korean traditions that have been handed down, covered, sampled and recomposed. 🔔 Curated by Alicia Franzke @alifranzke and Kay Lotte Pommer @kaylottz Photo documentation by Laura Wichmann @laurawichmann_ Founded by Kulturamt Leipzig and Kulturstiftung des Freistaats Sachen

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Warm invitation to our second episode of FABULATIVE LORE: 𝘐𝘯 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘳𝘶𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 with the artists Naomi Citlali @effect137 and Kay Yoon @kayyoon 📮 The opening will happen on 24.04 at 7PM with a lecture performance by Kay Yoon at 8PM. Does sound carry culture along – like a current sweeping it forward? Or does culture shape the course – its rhythms, its ruptures? 𝘐𝘯 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘳𝘶𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 hosts artworks by Naomi Citali and Kay Yoon who circle around and move with sound - as a keeper, disturber and shaper of cultural practices. The exhibition series FABULATIVE LORE explores lore—whether long-standing, fading from memory, undergoing transformation, or imagining futures yet to come. Lore (from the Old English lār, meaning “learning”) refers to knowledge and traditions passed down within a group. It can take many forms—stories, songs, crafts, rituals, symbols, or recipes—shaping identity, preserving skills, and connecting generations. Graphic: Nelly Nakahara @nelly_akane Sound: Kay Yoon @kayyoon Founded by Stadt Leipzig and Kulturstiftung des Freistaats Sachsen

🤍⭐️THANK YOU ALL⭐️🤍 📸 @foto.documentation