Rae-Yen Song lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. Working expansively through drawing, sculpture, installation, costume, video, sound, performance and family collaboration, Song’s practice is a long-term exercise in self-mythology as survival tactic. It explores the position of Other within our tangled reality, speaking broadly through fantasy about foreignness, animism, identity, interdependency, and what it means to belong – or not. Recent exhibitions include: Let the Song Hold Us, FACT Liverpool 2022;; Meet me at the threshold, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh;; Aggregate 2022, Freelands Foundation, London;; and WORMB, Quench Gallery, Margate. In 2021, ▷▥◉▻ at Dundee Contemporary Arts (solo) ;; wūûūwūûū - a LUX Scotland moving image commissioned by BBC Scotland, Fabric of Society, Glasgow International and Dislocations, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.

▷▥◉▻ , Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2021. Photography: Ruth Clark. Installation view. Image courtesy Rae-Yen Song

▷▥◉▻ , Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2021. Photography: Ruth Clark. Detail. Image courtesy Rae-Yen Song

▷▥◉▻ , Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2021. Photography: Ruth Clark. Detail. Image courtesy Rae-Yen Song

▷▥◉▻ , Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2021. Photography: Ruth Clark. Detail. Image courtesy Rae-Yen Song

wūûūwūûū, 2021, animation still. Image courtesy Rae-Yen Song. Commissioned by LUX Scotland and BBC Scotland, 2021. Currently available on BBC Arts. Image couresy Rae-Yen Song

≈≈aaaaaahmaaaaaa≈≈ , FACT Liverpool, 2022. Photography: Rob Battersby. Detail. Image courtesy Rae-Yen Song.

≈≈aaaaaahmaaaaaa≈≈ , FACT Liverpool, 2022. Photography: Rob Battersby. Installation view. Image courtesy Rae-Yen Song

happy happy leaf, 2018, pen and ink on paper. Image courtesy Rae-Yen Song. SURVEY, Jerwood Space, London, 2018 (2019 tour: g39, Cardiff; Bluecoat, Liverpool; Baltic, Gateshead). Image courtesy Rae-Yen Song

✵may-may songuu✵ , 2020 pen and ink on paper. Image courtesy Rae-Yen Song.

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