I FIND THAT VERY ODD – Solo Exhibition by Beatriz Manteigas
📍 Studio 9BC, 616 E 9th St, New York, NY 10009
📅 Opening: Tue, Feb 17, 2026 | 6–8pm
✨ On view Feb 18 – March 14, 2026 | Weekdays 10am–4pm, Weekends 2–4pm and by appointment (email
[email protected])
Please join us for RU resident artist Beatriz Manteigas’(
@beatrizmanteigas ) first solo exhibition in New York City, “I FIND THAT VERY ODD” presented at Studio 9BC (
@studio_9BC ), curated by LinYee Yuan.
As Félix Guattari argued in the 1980s, ecology can only be truly considered when environmental, social, and mental dimensions are addressed together. Aligned with this thinking, the exhibition brings together three series by Beatriz Manteigas. “Greenwashing” (2025) presents a drawing of a garden, another iteration of the work that following the title is now wrapped in green cellophane; a series of porcelain works (2026), composed of texts readable only through shadows, invites the viewer for a dialogue, yet obstructs it from understanding; “After the Storm” (2016–2026) revisits small oil paintings of clouds, which Manteigas started to paint ten years ago in Myanmar while reading George Orwell (who served as a British officer in former Burma) and reflecting on the shifting dynamics of politics, power and the human toll of war.
Beatriz Manteigas often simultaneously works on multiple series to reference that art unfolds through processes rather than solely aiming at results. This also resonates with Guattari’s vision that one cannot afford to relax: one must continue improving through intersecting approaches and constantly revisiting through the courage to recognize one’s limits and differences, and through the creativity to transform them into new possibilities – always in relation to specific contexts, both within us and around us, from which there is no escape.
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