Shahryar Nashat's Beast in Both Palms pairs cats with cats, tigers with tigers, mirrored shapes against mirrored shapes. The exhibition presents seven new works—born digital, hardened into resin, fiber, and cardboard—that explore the raw tension between aggression and intimacy. The exhibition title evokes scripture or a love spell. Maybe both. Nashat asks what it means to have a body today, and whether the hand holding the beast is brutal or tender.
