"For their most ambitious exhibition to date, Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 transforms Tramway's vast exhibition hall into a submerged cosmology shaped by ancestral mythologies, Daoism, collective ritual and multispecies kinship. In this phantasmagoric aqueous environment-the most recent project in Song's ongoing world-building practice-life is understood as cyclical, relational and continuously in flux. Titled '*~TUA~* 大眼 *~MAK~*', the exhibition comprises newly commissioned works in sculpture, textiles, printmaking, sound, light and moving image,"
"Central to this world is the figure of tua mak (大眼; "big eyes" in the Teochew dialect), an ancestor known only through fragmented family stories, who drowned at sea in Singapore at the age of 13. Song imagines tua mak as a dispersed lifeform, whose watery decomposition gives rise to innumerable other beings. This logic is materially anchored by a living pond at the center of the "microbeast~pagoda," whose microscopic life actively shapes the exhibition's shifting light and an ever-evolving soundscape, created in collaboration with sound artist Flora Yin Wong."
Rae-Yen Song transforms Tramway's exhibition hall into a submerged cosmology shaped by ancestral mythologies, Daoism, ritual, and multispecies kinship. Life appears cyclical, relational and in flux. Titled '*~TUA~* 大眼 *~MAK~*', the exhibition includes newly commissioned sculpture, textiles, printmaking, sound, light and moving image within a glowing chimeric creature whose tentacles extend from a central sanctum to the space's edges. Each tentacle ends with a textile mask embodying an ancestral figure that looks upon a luminous animation inside a mouth-blown glass sculpture. A living pond in the "microbeast~pagoda" hosts microscopic life that shapes shifting light and an evolving soundscape made with Flora Yin Wong. Suspended sculptural costumes are activated in performances involving Song's family and communal ritual.
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