Preview 14 November 6pm to 9pm
Performance at 6.30pm

•~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• is an ambitious multimedia installation by artist Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 that evokes a sub-aquatic world shaped according to the ancestral logics of the Song family, which serves simultaneously as spectacle, memorial and refuge. 
 

Film and Video Umbrella commissioned and produced eight new digital animations for the exhibition titled •~ghosts~• (song~xian). Song collaborated with microbiologist Keira Tucker, who captured microscopic footage of organisms from the Song family pond. Song reimagined these lifeforms as eight glazed ceramic deities inspired by the Daoist kim sin tradition, in which statues are treated as active spiritual presences. After being 3D scanned, the ceramics were transformed into animated beings that shimmer inside mouth-blown glass heads, swaying and briefly dancing in movements drawn from the pond’s microscopic world.

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Image: Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊, •~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• (abyss), 2025. Ink and papa’s pen on papa’s paper, 280 x 385mm.