A glimpse of an alternate dimension, shaped according to the ancestral logics and imagined futures of Song’s family. Artworks are covered in symbolic details, patterns, coded pictorial language and untranslatable knowledge that hint at the multiplicitous stories which collectively form this surreal space. There are worlds within worlds here, bodies within bodies, faces within faces. (Excerpt from exhibition introduction by Eoin Dara, Head of Exhibitions)

Rae-Yen Song created three print editions in tandem with the development of the exhibition ▷▥◉▻ at Dundee Contemporary Arts. A fluid, creative dialogue throughout the production of this body of work enabled sculptural elements for the exhibition to become integrated into experimental processes in DCA Print Studio and, inversely, layers from the print development such as deep-etched copper plates, or intricately cut inky woodblocks, to ultimately merge into the gallery environment. The resulting editions are closely interconnected but diverse.

ah kong --glare--, is, in turn, an artifact born of the process of making ah kong --ghost-- within the studio, containing motifs that are reimagined and reincorporated into this shifting print composition and story. The reflective surface of the holographic vinyl recalls aspects of the central mirrored acrylic installation in the gallery, at once reflective and transparent; greeting the viewer with multiple planes and perspectives floating alongside the characters on the surface, to be read and re-read as they merge, appear and disappear.

Courtesy of Dundee Contemporary