Candice Lin | Too Many Rats, Not Enough Sex (2025)

Candice Lin | Too Many Rats, Not Enough Sex (2025)[[specs start]] High fire porcelain, screen printed with cobalt oxide, clock parts Approximately 24 x 22 x 5 cm Edition of 20, accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate Produced by the artist and Mizuyo Yamashita As each clock is individually handmade, please note that slight variations in colour and form may occur. These differences are part of the unique character of each piece. [[specs end]] [[work start]] About the work Candice Lin has

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High-fire porcelain, screen-printed with cobalt oxide, clock parts

Approximately 24 x 22 x 5 cm

Edition of 20, accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate

Produced by the artist and Mizuyo Yamashita

As each clock is individually handmade, please note that slight variations in colour and form may occur. These differences are part of the unique character of each piece.

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About the work

Candice Lin has created a special porcelain clock especially for Whitechapel Gallery to accompany her exhibition Candice Lin: g/hosti, 8 Oct 2025 – 01 Mar 2026.

Too Many Rats, Not Enough Sex, (2025) connects to a series of thin porcelain clocks that the artist has been making since 2022. The form of the cat builds on her recurring interest in interspecies relationships. For this clock, Lin chose her own cat Roger as her subject matter. Besides personally liking cats, Lin thinks of them as independent and wilful creatures with a rebellious and unpredictable spirit. 

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About the artist

Candice Lin (b. 1979, Concord, Massachusetts, US) lives and works in Altadena, California. Her multi-disciplinary artwork often engages with marginalised histories, legacies of colonialism and issues of race, gender and sexuality. Through a research-based practice, she investigates the materials and processes that connect contemporary concerns with deeper histories. Her layered installations bring these histories to life with eclectic materials – such as tobacco, lard, opium poppies or cochineal bugs – and with room-sized interventions that choreograph the movements of audiences within her work. 

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Selected exhibitions

Recent solo exhibitions include Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (2024); Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE (2024); MUMA, Melbourne, Australia (2024); Canal Projects, New York, USA (2023), Spike Island, Bristol, United Kingdom (2022); and the Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (2021). Lin has also participated in group exhibitions including the 24th Biennale of Sydney (2024), the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), the 13th and 14th Gwangju Biennial (2021 and 2023). She is the recipient of several residencies, grants and fellowships including the inaugural Ruth Award (2024); the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2023); Gold Art Prize (2021); the 6th Arnaldo Pomodoro Sculpture Prize (2021); and the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant (2019). 

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