@raeyensong | working document
Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 is an artist flowing with the immigrant experience of flux and resilience, hungry to ever-evolve and build things. Guided by Daoist ways of worlding, Song considers family as a hybrid organism, radically entwined with all other living things – continuously swirling in multi- space and time. Song masticates their vibrating qi, and grows a big belly to hold all of this entangled ancestry… plop plop plop… warm excretions of other life stories to be sewn, watered and sung.
In 2024, Song collated a research exhibition and live programme, life-bestowing cadaverous soooooooooooooooooot, at CCA Glasgow. Work has also been shown at Mead Gallery, Coventry (Hayward Gallery Touring, 2024-26), Royal Scottish Academy (2024), Aspex Portsmouth (2023), FACT Liverpool (2022), Quench Gallery, Margate (2022), Dundee Contemporary Arts (2021), LUX Scotland & BBC Scotland (2021), Glasgow International (2021), esea contemporary, Manchester (2020), Edinburgh Art Festival (2018; 2020), Jerwood Arts, London (2018). Residencies include Porthmeor Studios x Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Residency Award (2024), Launch Pad LaB, France (2022), Talbot Rice Residents, Edinburgh (2019-2021), Hospitalfield, Arbroath (2019), Sura Medura, Sri Lanka (2017).
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