Anoushé Shojae-Chaghorvand: innocence is cheap, but ten dollars lasts forever

2022–2023 Fellow Anoushé Shojae-Chaghorvand deploys the figure of the coyote—a resilient, displaced pack mammal—as her skeletal muse in innocence is cheap, but ten dollars lasts forever, an exhibition of sculptures. Panning away from the victors, Shojae-Chaghorvand centers the frame instead on the subjects we vilify: she depicts and dissects an anthropomorphized animal’s endless, cartoonish hunger and suffering—the tethers that jerk around desire and pain.