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Final day: 52 Allen “The Reality is Endlessly Postponed”  ft. Li Zhenhua and Yuki He curated by Frank WANG Yefeng @this.frank.wang @lzhenhua @artistyukihe — Final day: 53 Orchard “Puppy’s Play and Punishment”  ft new work by Aika Akhmetova curated by Hannah Lutz Winkler @hwinx @aigerimakh Aika Akhmetova will be doing a performance in the 53 Orchard window from 1-5pm TODAY, folks

Final week: “Puppy’s Play and Punishment” ft new work by Aika Akhmetova, curated by Hannah Lutz Winkler Saturdays 12-6pm and by appt thru Feb 14 @ 53 Orchard Aika Akhmetova will be doing a performance in the 53 Orchard window from 1-5pm on Saturday 2/14 @hwinx @aigerimakh

Final week: “The Reality is Endlessly Postponed” curated by Frank WANG Yefeng In the exhibition, Li’s poetic videos and the lard sculpture (SNOWMAN, 2015) appear alongside his writings, while Yuki’s digitally constructed scenes are carefully translated into inkjet on canvas. The works resist simple categorization, and their common ground lies precisely in their differences. Both artists evoke, in distinct ways, what Jacques Derrida termed “différance”—a deliberate “misspelling” visible only in writing, not speech. In such a system, meaning is constantly shifting, relational, and incomplete: a process rather than a destination. Embodying these qualities, neither Li’s time-based works nor Yuki’s digital renderings settle into stable truth; instead, they reveal reality as something perpetually contingent, formed through layers of absence, delay, and interpretation. Images 1-3: Installation views Image 4: Yuki He, Subway, 2025, 3d model, archival inkjet print on canvas, four-panel, quadriptych, 96” x 12” (24” x 12” each) Saturday 12-6pm and by appt thru Feb 14 @ 52 Allen @this.frank.wang @artistyukihe @lzhenhua

‼️🚨🌞Divas, we have an urgent performance alert 🌞🚨‼️ Aika Akhmetova will be doing a performance in the 53 Orchard window from 1-5pm on Saturday 2/14 Final week: “Puppy’s Play and Punishment” ft new work by Aika Akhmetova, curated by Hannah Lutz Winkler Saturdays 12-6pm and by appt thru Feb 14 @ 53 Orchard @hwinx @aigerimakh

On view now: “The Reality is Endlessly Postponed” curated by Frank WANG Yefeng Yuki He, Train Dreams: Cut, 2025, 3d model, archival inkjet print on canvas, 72 x 36 inches, Unique With a shared commitment to questioning how realities are constructed, recorded, and understood, “The Reality is Endlessly Postponed” positions Below Grand’s Allen Street gallery as a threshold—between generations, between documentary and simulation, between the experienced and the remade—inviting viewers to inhabit the unstable space where images shape the worlds we move through. Saturdays 12-6pm and by appt thru Feb 14 @ 52 Allen @this.frank.wang @artistyukihe

On view now: “Puppy’s Play and Punishment” ft new work by Aika Akhmetova, curated by Hannah Lutz Winkler In the storefront window, viewers see a web-like mass of retractable leashes, dog collars, chains, upholstery foam, and found objects, many specific to the Post-Soviet region, or to the artist’s preferred site of globalized everyday material culture—the dollar store. Akhmetova will perform within this installation: tethering themself to it, bowing in it, flaunting a repository of Puppy’s movements. A sinister energy lurks behind these shenanigans: looking closer, we notice Puppy’s range of motion is limited, as if by veterinary intervention, and that medical detritus litters the installation—Puppy, it seems, may have been coerced into belly button surgery. Saturdays 12-6pm and by appt thru Feb 14 @ 53 Orchard @hwinx @aigerimakh

On view now: “The Reality is Endlessly Postponed” curated by Frank WANG Yefeng Image 1: Li Zhenhua, Installation view Image 2: Li Zhenhua, Echo of You, 2020, Stereo Sound, black & white, 5’24” Image 3: Li Zhenhua, SNOWMEN, 2015, Single channel video, color, sound, HD, 2’20” Image 4: Li Zhenhua, Untitled: flying object’s sustainability, 2016, Photo & video installation, black & white, Infinite loop Saturdays 12-6pm and by appt thru Feb 14 @ 52 Allen @this.frank.wang @lzhenhua

On view now: “Puppy’s Play and Punishment” ft new work by Aika Akhmetova, curated by Hannah Lutz Winkler The taboos around sexual expression that initially inspired this project are re-played and transformed in the BDSM references in the work. Bondage and restriction reference kink acts and punishing societal constraints, all of it nutritious chow for Puppy’s defiant mischief. Puppy’s Play and Punishment is about re-framing brattiness and taboo as empowerment, fully letting go, and playing in the face of subjection. Saturdays 12-6pm and by appt thru Feb 14 @ 53 Orchard @hwinx @aigerimakh

On view now: “The Reality is Endlessly Postponed” curated by Frank WANG Yefeng Yuki He, Supermarket: Meats, 2025, 3d model, archival inkjet print on canvas, 72 x 36 inches, Unique Yuki He is an artist working in the intersection of art, architecture, photography, and virtual world-building. He graduated with a Master of Architecture from Pratt Institute and currently lives and works in New York City. Yuki’s work explores the tension between reality and reconstruction, using 3D modeling as a medium to examine histories, spaces, and moments that are often overlooked. By building hyperrealistic environments entirely from scratch — every object, character, beam of light, particle of dust, and even elements beyond the visible frame — he constructs scenes that feel immersive yet impossible in the physical world. Through this process of digital reconstruction, combined with cinematographic approaches of staging and framing, Yuki leads viewers into a space where memory, speculation, and imagination converge. Saturdays 12-6pm and by appt thru Feb 14 @ 52 Allen @this.frank.wang @artistyukihe

On view now: “Puppy’s Play and Punishment” ft new work by Aika Akhmetova, curated by Hannah Lutz Winkler Aika Akhmetova (b. 1995 Almaty, Kazakhstan) is an interdisciplinary artist based between New York City and Almaty. In their performance-based practice, Akhmetova plays hard and leaves traces of naughtiness behind at any cost. They investigate all parts of themselves: Kazakh, queer, non-binary, kinky, homesick immigrant, animal lover, older sister, and brat. Akhmetova studied Painting at Rhode Island School of Design and holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. They’ve had solo exhibitions at Ortega y Gasset Projects and A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, and have participated in numerous group shows across the US, Central Asia, and Europe, including Fondazione Elpis in Milan, Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Jewish Museum in NYC, GAMU (The Gallery of the Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague as well as ARTBAT FEST in Almaty. Akhmetova participated in the AIM fellowship at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, LMCC Arts Center Residency on Governors Island, and Fire Island Artist Residency. They work as a teaching artist at Harlem School of the Arts and as a visiting instructor at Pratt Institute Saturdays 12-6pm and by appt thru Feb 14 @ 53 Orchard @hwinx @aigerimakh

On view now: “The Reality is Endlessly Postponed” curated by Frank WANG Yefeng Li Zhenhua, SNOWMEN (sculpture), 2015, Pork lard, mini fridge, 17 x 17 x 18 in For the past decade, Li Zhenhua (b. 1975) has built a visual journal of everyday life: fragments of encounters, passages through places, gestures of wandering, and texts addressed to self and others. His moving images draw from performative and documentary languages that resist closure, foregrounding the mutability of memory and the porous boundaries between art, observation, and lived experience. His practice reflects a life spent navigating geographies and institutions, tracing the rhythms of a world constantly in motion while probing the shifting truths of our existence. Saturdays 12-6pm and by appt thru Feb 14 @ 52 Allen @this.frank.wang @lzhenhua

Opening tonight, Jan 17, from 5-7pm — “Puppy’s Play and Punishment”, a solo exhibition of new installation, performance, and video work by Aika Akhmetova. At Below Grand’s 53 Orchard St. space, Akhmetova transforms the smaller, interior gallery into a screening room for a multi-channel video installation, shot in peak summertime on Fire Island and now viewed in a cozy den outfitted with soft, welcoming furniture. We see Puppy get walked for the first time; we see Puppy whine amid a sunshower. curated by @hwinx @aigerimakh