The Cat Wife is a joint exhibition by Morgane Richer La Flèche and Janie Korn, reimagining a 17th-century French fable to explore desire, bodily autonomy, and transformation. Richer La Flèche’s paintings blend the magical and mundane, depicting a woman and a cat as intertwined symbols of feminine complexity and self-determination. Janie Korn’s hand-sculpted potion vessels and candles interpret the fable’s unspoken elements, drawing from rituals and alchemy to reflect the transformative power of the story. Together, the artists create an immersive experience that celebrates the synergy of their distinct yet complementary visions.
Morgane Richer La Flèche is a Canadian-born, New York-based multidisciplinary artist. A self-taught artist, she works primarily in oil paint, pastels, soft sculpture, and video. She is inspired by the world-building of Florine Stettheimer and Lewis Carroll, the theatrical arts, lyric poetry, French literature, her Catholic upbringing, body horror, and the Rococo period. Her work is visceral, as in pink for flesh and red for blood, as in decadence of excess but also of decay and decomposition. Whether in paint, pastel or wool felt, her textures are simultaneously viscous and diaphanous. While her paintings are steeped in narrative, she plays with abstraction to create sinister landscapes that are always swirling, deteriorating and melding—a nod to hyperspace, virtual realities, and the architecture of cathedrals arching towards heaven.
A Prayer for Harvest
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Angel Roof of East Anglia
Botanical Elixir
Calling on the Bugs
Cat wife twilight
Cat wife valentine
Danse Macabre
Dreamland
Fable Disc
Falconry