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Tai Shani
Tragodía
13 March - 04 September 2020

Following temporary closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, Grazer Kunstverein reopens from 27 May 2020, Wednesday to Friday 11am – 6pm.

Tai Shani works with sculpture, installation, performance, moving image, text, spoken word, and virtual reality in her multidisciplinary artistic practice. 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. Her newly commissioned work Tragodía contemplates kinship, care, mortality and privacy, exploring how intimacy is a site for radical transformation. Shani has produced an epic virtual reality play, with sound design by Maxwell Sterling, voicing urgent personal and philosophical ideas. Shani uses the narrative device of virtual reality, combine with exquisite sculptural artefacts that are layered like props across a dream-like landscape. Shani explores the construction of subjectivity, family relationships, and the centrality of love and death in a post-patriarchal reality.

Shani’s exhibition at Grazer Kunstverein marks the artist’s first institutional show in Austria. Tragodía is a co-production with Jindřich Chalupecký Society, Prague, and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin.

Bildcourtesy Tai Shani