Lavender, Hibernation and Neon
Mia Isabel Edelgart, Matilda Tjäder, Silke Weißbach,Yoojin Lee, Yui Yamamoto
Curated by Yueh-Ning Lee
Is sleep innocent?
Lavender, Hibernation and Neon unpacks the subversive power of passivity and vulnerability inherent in sleep and dreams in the restless 24/7 post-pandemic era. Primarily from feminine perspectives, this exhibition features the reenacted and the new iteration of commissioned works, including video and sound installations, soft sculptures, and durational performances by five female artists: Mia Isabel Edelgart, Yoojin Lee, Matilda Tjäder, Silke Weißbach and Yui Yamamoto.
The durations of each work incorporate the experiences of fatigued bodies, and prompt interventions against the poisonous social environment, spectatorship, clock-time and the pressures of productivity in reflection of the re-accelerating world, as well as emancipates the transformational power of dreams. Lavender, Hibernation and Neon invites the visitors to experience the dilation of sleep and dream time via time-based media works and also to investigate the power dynamic of artists' and viewers' bodies embodied in the gallery in response to the wrestle of rest and productivity.
Exhibition Floor Plan
Artists
Mia Isabel Edelgart
Visual artist Mia Isabel Edelgart (b.1984, Denmark) works non media specified, varying between collective and singular processes. Her works unfold in relation to long-lasting research (...)
Yoojin Lee
Yoojin Lee works across and in-between performance, installation, text, sound and video to embody ways of becoming and knowing. Her work engages with seemingly quiet, less noticed but persistent forms of resistance (...)
Matilda Tjäder
Matilda Tjäder is an artist building fictional worlds via text, sound, performance and moving image. In her work she develops experimental environments where the familiar interfaces with the unknown,(...)
Silke Weißbach
Silke Weißbach employs a material-based approach to seamlessly integrate her concepts into video-installation and sculpture. Drawing on concepts of natural phenomena, (...)
Yui Yamamoto
Yui Yamamoto is a Japanese artist engages in performance & installation. Working with the body and actions, various sounds and rhythms, and daily and domesticated objects,(...)
Curator
Yueh-Ning Lee
Yueh-Ning Lee is a Taiwanese curator whose practice emphasises collaboration across disciplines, from time-based media, performance to digital curation with storytelling at its core. (...)
Contact: yuehniiing.lee@gmail.com