Navigate this exhibition like a cat would

The “O” in “An O & Their ABC (American Born Cat)” at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago points as much to omission as it does to olivier, the artist whose work is on view. In a lecture-performance at the opening reception, they spoke of Hong Kong and language, stopping short of fully describing their life as a Hong Konger; the exhibition extends the artist’s reticence into form. Nearly everything on view is office-grade: laminate, binders, photocopies, pipe cleaners coiled into spiral bindings. Photocopies of redacted documents leave behind concrete poems. Drawings and prints are framed in novel, ad hoc book structures, while the same materials ornament nearly every surface in the gallery, extending into the emergency stairway and the neighboring library. There is no works list, just a table of contents hidden somewhere in an artist book. Badger, said American-born cat, is both muse and method: Navigate the exhibition as they would. Much of the work invites handling.

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