Tai Shani : Tragodía

20 Dec 2019-15 Feb 2020

Overview

Tai Shani’s radical multidisciplinary practice incorporates sculpture, performative installations, moving image, experimental spoken and written narratives, radio broadcasts, and virtual reality. Shani deconstructs social hierarchies by elevating the roles of those who have been oppressed in history, mythology and the artist’s personal experience. Using the forms of science-fiction, anthropology, feminist and queer theory, Shani blurs fact and fiction, re-imagining cultural archetypes and re-interpreting their narratives with eroticism, violence and fantasy. These characters also exude tenderness and compassion, which illuminates female otherness in a setting of communal support and equality that proposes a possible post-patriarchal future. Shani’s new work that will be shown at TBG+S contemplates mortality, kinship and privacy, as well the nature of close relationships between othered subjects, and how intimacy is a site for radical transformation and conceptions of selfhood.