Kitty Ca$h

Hannah Traore Gallery is pleased to present Kitty Ca$h: Handle With Care, the Brooklyn-born multidisciplinary artist, DJ, and producer’s first gallery installation. Featuring an interactive installation that blends sound, visual art, and audience participation, the show aims to create a safe space for human connection and emotional release.

The focal point of the exhibition is a participatory installation inspired by the inside of a mailroom, featuring nearly 200 mailroom collection boxes and postcard podiums. Visitors are invited to privately deposit their "emotional mail"—written accounts of intimate, personal moments they wish to have held with care–as notes, missives, and letters on postcards. The act of putting pen to paper offers a tactile experience, encouraging the audience to reclaim their emotional and physical space, and reconnect with their body. In an era when digital communication supersedes physical mail and letter-writing, this exhibition serves as a sanctuary for marginalized communities.

The installation is accompanied by a reimagined score from her debut EP of the same title, in which the artist deconstructed melodies and vocals to create a unique ambient soundscape titled, “What The Shadow Knows.” This work explores themes of process, healing, and renewal, using a continuous thrum to craft a dimensional and immersive environment. It transcends time and space, drawing the audience into a deeper experience of the present moment. The score features London-based trumpeter, vocalist, and visual artist Sheila Maurice-Gray, known for the jazz and afrobeat fusion band Korokoro; orchestral harpist Elizabeth Steiner, who has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, and Chineke! Orchestra; and Sid Sriram, an Indian Carnatic musician, music producer, and playback singer, on vocals.

Kitty Ca$h is an interdisciplinary artist that works in music, video, animation and installation. The core of her work is an exploration of self and the Black experience in relation to themes such as Black womanhood, identity, community, and Black healing, This is often explored through music, humor, and social commentary. She has collaborated with artists like Rihanna, Solange, and A$AP Rocky, and has performed at renowned institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum and Brooklyn Museum.