A Hyena Wore My Face Last Night

C+N Gallery CANEPANERI is pleased to present “A Hyena Wore My Face Last Night”, a duo exhibition curated by Joséphine-May Bailey, featuring new works by sculptor Holly Stevenson and painter Amelie Peace. The exhibition takes its title from Leonora Carrington’s short story “The Debutante”, in which a young woman enlists a hyena to attend a society ball in her place. Disguised in the skin of a maid it has devoured, the animal stumbles through the absurd rituals of aristocratic life with barely concealed contempt. The story is comic and macabre, absurd, and subversive. In this spirit, the exhibition explores femininity, transformation, concealment, and the blurred line between human and animal. Through ceramic sculpture and painting, Stevenson and Peace each consider the feminine as a space of doubling and becoming. Identity is presented not as something fixed, but as something provisional and shifting – something worn or borrowed, something that can be exchanged or undone.